Posted on 05/07/2011 5:50:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Taxpayer funded marxist training centers. Better to make them all like Hillsdale college.
yes, the Government started subsidizing College. Anything you want to make more expensive, involve Government subsidies.
Well, the college mafia got one of their own elected so on that basis alone we need to shut them down...LOL
“If 70.1% of high school graduates enroll in a college or university, how does a college degree give you an advantage over the rest of the population? Back in the early 1960s, Americans didn’t need to go to college. We were a creditor nation with a strong manufacturing base. With an unemployment rate of only 5%, jobs were available to almost everybody. Less than 50% of American high school graduates enrolled into college. For those who did attend college and graduate with a degree, it was actually something special that made you stand out from the rest of the field, because not everybody had one.”
The situation in a nutshell. In the past, all you needed was a work ethic and a good idea or two; there was plenty of work and plenty of opportunity out there and social/economical mobility was for the first time in forever, easy. You could make a huge amount of money just working in construction and bringing home the bacon was effortless as long as you worked. Degrees were only needed if you were going to become an engineer or a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer. The rest was on the job training or certifications.
I have an MBA, so does everyone else in business. I agree with this article 100%. There is no benefit to college. Any kid going to a Vo Tech School, leaves there with a skill that will make them more money than any college grad. In fact most college grads will end up working for a self employed Vo Tech grad.
College is not about education, college has become another business, hustling students through, and gobbling up government grant money to pay exorbitant salaries to the central staff. Schools now are tools of the Socialists, and printing presses for money.
Your better off buying a house with that money unless you want to be a Doctor or Lawyer.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Year-Party-Colleges-Given-Educating/dp/1935251805
Lots of good online college courses these days as well. I’ve taken a couple of online courses from our local community college for my own personal interests.
There are no jobs in the graphic arts industry but I am able to make a little extra on my own. I picked up a $1000 job taking team photos of the local little league teams the other day.
Most of the millionaires I’ve known were high school grads, high school dropouts or community college/vo-tech grads. The only one that I knew had a degree is my b@$+@rd uncle who owned a chain of banks in Florida. He made J.R. Ewing look like Major Tony Nelson.
I've seen this situation repeatedly in my family and the families of my peers. It's out of hand. I regretted not finishing my BA degree in the late 70s, but the work I left college to do was in my chosen profession and I have excelled beyond all others in my class.
The only downside I can think of to online courses is the lack of making physical connections--partying aside. Young people today form their personas behind computer screens and the psychological repercussions have yet to be fully examined. Perhaps that will be the next expose.
Aside from technical or other schools that teach a specific trade, colleges are utterly worthless. During my working career, I’ve found that the more “educated” someone is, the more dumb/stupid they tend to be.
My wife is working on her Doctorate in Nursing, and the program is a joke. The only thing that makes it challenging is her having old hippy liberal professors. I advised her to simply right papers that would appeal to Leftists just to get through it.
I went to college, a private college of excellent reputation in the late 1960’s. My Freshman year, tuition was $990 a year, which I paid for by working as a non-union construction laborer at $3.50 an hour during the summer.
Now the same school charges $36,000 for tuition despite the fact that 65% of their funding comes from sources other than tuition (huge alumni gifting, which I have cut back on). The school year is 5 weeks shorter than it was then, kids are paying something like $110 per hour of classroom (not individual) instruction. That includes the classes with 150 students in them.
This is completely scandalous. Obviously, no one in the Higher Education Industry (and that is what it is) understands the concept of “cost containment.”
Unless your kid is utterly dedicated to becoming a doctor or lawyer, you should not send him to college. Buy them a set of good books, tell them to join a Great Books Discussion Club, and then send them into the Army. My son who went directly into the Army after high school is better and more broadly educated than my daughters who went to college, though he does not have a degree (he’s made more money, too).
Oh no...where will we get our supply of English-speaking waiters and waitresses?
The billions of dollars spent on declining standards of education in this country is outrageous and robs taxpayers, parents and the students, who can’t find a job despite their very expensive degrees.
Or better, hunt out some retired professor and offer him fifty thousand to teach you face to face, one on one. No bothering with the bureaucracy. Fifty thousand is more than enough to get the best possible education.
Or she could write papers.
I hear Ave Maria in Naples is good too.
Or a software engineer. Still good money... for now.
Since 1978, the cost of living has increased 2.5 times, the costs of medical care has increased 6 times and the cost of college tuition has increased 10 times.
Interesting, too that a lot of folks that spent time in the Service ended up in a technical job like engineering.
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