Posted on 06/18/2009 4:55:13 AM PDT by decimon
The soaring costs of a college degree are prompting colleges to consider a three-year degree program. Britain has long granted a degree for three years of college.
I would like to suggest a one-year degree program. And I don’t mean an associate’s degree.
Here are some hard facts most colleges will never tell you and most parents could not tolerate hearing. The general requirements of the first two years at most colleges are what high school should have been. That is what junior should have learned had he not been busy getting high, getting drunk, and being socially promoted.
Better high schools frequently use the same textbooks for the mandatory requirements that are used in the first two years of college. If a high school draws from the upper end of the socioeconomic scale, the courses will be more demanding than the first two years of most colleges.
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My husband says college is over rated and he has three degrees (BS in Engineering Physics; MAM; MDiv), none of which he uses in his current job (computer programmer/developer).
at albertons’ deli i met a mexican kid recently graduated from a california high school that did not know
what one-third of a pound is.
he said that recently customers had taught him what one-quarter and one-half of a pound are.
Replace classwork with a beatch of a final exam for each course. It gives the student an incentive to learn the material.
So, based on the recently released statistic showing that on average, only 53% +/- of U.S. college students earn a four year degree within SIX years, the “three year degree” will take what, 4.5 years for HALF of all students to obtain?
I have similar number of degrees and agree with him.
I recently went back to college for my second degree and I thought it was a joke. It was like being in High School but with more Marxism...
I never get a response to this, but..."testing out" through CLEP, DANTES and similar is one way to get an undergraduate degree for less than ten grand.
I did actually CLEP a few classes, others I took online so I wouldn’t have to actually listen to the Liberal instructors.
How did you like them?
The Realities of ‘College Education’:
1)Keys to success in world has nothing to do with a degree
2) Who you know and who you ‘blow’—access to capital whether family, friend, political connections etc
3) Very few ideas are original, most success comes from improving on existing ideas
4) Nearly(not all) all training for ANY career could be done through much cheaper methods than the over priced four year college
5) Stop putting a bachelor degree on a pedestal to be worshiped
My college degree hangs over my toilet as a daily reminder of these realities.
Public education is an equal opportunity waste of time. Here in Pennsylvania where many generations of ancestors have been born in America, it is routine for recent High School graduates to be unable to make change without help.
Not bad... definitely better and cheaper than sitting in those absurd classes.
I have said that for years. Also, have said that college is not about preparing people for careers, it is for breeding new liberals.
pray for our nation, and our children.
Success in the corporate world may require that degree.
2) Who you know and who you ‘blow’—access to capital whether family, friend, political connections etc
I never liked that attitude but it does match what I've experienced.
3) Very few ideas are original, most success comes from improving on existing ideas
Agreed.
4) Nearly(not all) all training for ANY career could be done through much cheaper methods than the over priced four year college
Much true.
5) Stop putting a bachelor degree on a pedestal to be worshiped
I don't know that the Bachelor's degree is worshiped these days. I think it's more a requirement.
Not only do you save on tuition but you use the textbook, or other materials, of your choice. Ne need to drop a c-note on the latest version of some textbook.
To sit for the CPA, I simply bought text books of my choice and took equivalency exams offered by the state.
On the CPA exam, I outperformed some folks who had an undergraduate and graduate degree in accounting and saved at least two years of college study.
I once made the mistake of asking a the kid behind the Subway shop to cut my sandwich in thirds. I got that deer in the headlights look.
I now when I go to Subway, I ask, “Please cut the sandwich into 3 equal pieces.”
May I take it that you are not a fan of this educational mode? ;-)
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