Yes, but a heart surgeon hardly needs to sit through 4 years of history or political science or gender studies at a university to learn to be a doctor. Most college courses are a joke and just a repeat of the crap kids are forced to endure in high school. There is absolutely no reason for education to take as many years as it does. The initial push for mandatory education came from unions that did not want young people out in the work force competing for jobs.
Our system of education is horrible, and the worst thing that ever happened to this country was when government basically took over education. We are still doing things the way they were done 150 years ago, although things are even worse, since everything is dumbed down now.
Better would be an Engineering Degree, or Business
To learn how to Think Critically
How many 18 year olds know they want to be doctors. My son is 18, and a freshman at Texas A&M.
He’s currently majoring in economics, but he’s thinking of changing to physics. He went to a great private school in California, but his science teachers just never inspired him. In college, he loves his astronomy course. He says that he would rather work out problems than just memorize facts.
My 30 year old nephew dropped out of college, and he’s struggled. He’s got a good job now working for Haliburtin, but it’s a very manual job. I can’t imagine him doing that in 20 years.
I also think you have to be smart about what you major in. My son did theater in high school, and he has lots of friends majoring in it. I think they will have a difficult time.