bachelor中等

But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all — and the subtle devaluing of anything less — misses an important point: That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.

但是，一味推动人人都获得学士学位——以及对低于这一学历的一切的隐性贬低——忽略了重要的一点：这并不是美国经济唯一需要的东西。

Yes, a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.

没错，学士学位能打开更多的大门。

The headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all ____

一味推动人人获得学士学位____

Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in another major.

攻读另一专业的学士学位。

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students require fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

同样不足为奇的是，最终只有大约一半的人得到了他们当初读研究生时所追求的教授职位。职位实在太少了。部分原因是大学不断培养出越来越多的博士。但想学习人文学科的学生却越来越少：英语系在1970—1971学年授予的学士学位比20年后还要多。学生越少，所需的教师也就越少。因此，在花了十年时间撰写论文之后，许多人文学科的学生离开了这一行，去做他们没有受过训练的工作。