[frankiep]

Excellent post.

I just shake my head in bewilderment every time I see one of these types of stories that proclaim college as being a waste of time and money and totally unnecessary. It’s all a bunch of crap.
If you earn a college degree it proves to potential employers that you can:
meet deadlines
work on multiple projects
engage in critical thinking
successfully reach long term goals
work effectively with others
coherently present facts from numerous different sources
properly prioritize assignments

The list goes on. Like you said, these skills and abilities are pretty important in the rapidly changing world we live in today.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If you earn a college degree it proves to potential employers that you can:
meet deadlines
work on multiple projects
engage in critical thinking
successfully reach long term goals
work effectively with others
coherently present facts from numerous different sources
properly prioritize assignments

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No dispute. However, other are far faster, cheaper and more effective ways to achieve the same ends, at least as far as many employers should be concerned.

You don’t need to send me to the moon to develop personal computers and Teflon.

You don’t need to send kids to a party country club to have them learn the essentials to be a productive adult.

[Marie]

If you earn a college degree it proves to potential employers that you can:
meet deadlines
work on multiple projects
engage in critical thinking
successfully reach long term goals
work effectively with others
coherently present facts from numerous different sources properly prioritize assignments

That's amazing. If a young person got a job right out of high school and worked their butts off for four years, wouldn't that also prove all those things without the thousands and thousands of dollars of debt?