Posted on 08/08/2017 5:34:19 AM PDT by SJackson
No. Next question.
JoMa
We also went the community college route. Currently three of my kids have good degrees from prestigious or reasonable schools and no debts. Two are high earning software engineers and one is a pt teacher but that was her goal as she is also a homemaker
Nobody took out loans for school, but they didn't have to. I went to a state school, and tuition per year cost under $1000. When I got out of the Navy in 1970, I managed to put myself through college by working after classes, with the help of a $300 monthly stipend from the GI Bill, and no post-graduation debt.
Believe it or not, back then businesses actually valued a liberal arts degree, because it at least showed that you were capable of abstract thought and were teachable, never mind that it didn't train you for anything specific or job related.
Just having a degree in ANYTHING put you in one class above other job applicants, meaning you entered the workforce with preferential placement over people without a degree. Basically, high school-only grads would only be interviewed for clerical positions, whereas a college graduate would get interviewed for a management trainee position. In other words, a college degree made you "special" because only a minority of people had them.
Then the gubmint got involved and do-gooder Democrats decided that EVERYBODY had to go to college (well, women and minorities anyway), and started shoveling taxpayer dollars into student loan schemes allowing anybody to go, prepared for college or not.
Now millenials with $100,000 in college loans and a degree in Lesbian Dance Theory are left wondering where all those high paying jobs they were promised are, because a mere college degree doesn't make anybody "special" anymore.
Good luck finding a job that pays enough to pay off your student loans, kids. I just wish that your parents (my generation) had been able to recognize what was happening, but it transpired very slowly, kind of like untreated cancer.
Universities still teach real disciplines, but they also dedicate an inordinate amount of resources to fostering the left side of the culture war.
Congrats. I am in the middle of going the same route with my kids in Catholic Schools. It tends to make the family pretty broke. I won't be paying for college. They'll have to manage on their own, unfortunately. I'll help them through it. But it will be done very cost effectively. My son is in competitive sports and he loves it. My daughter is managing her own business on the side while in school at 15 years old (with help from mom and dad).
That makes sense. I suppose they must also offer a PHD in Women Studies as well. Would you then parley this into a career as a professional student? Maybe start over in the field of Diversity Studies. After that you could do Humanity Studies. By then you should be qualified as a fortune teller. Right?
I tutored a law school writing class and several people wrote like 6th graders. It was so bad! Then I taught some college courses at a graduate level (in a different area than law), and again, they were so bad! I'd classify them as the middle tier in high school back when I attended high school. Not nowadays, obviously.
EXCELLENT advice. WISE advice.
Most can’t differentiate between knowledge and wisdom.
Walter Williams BUMP!
During a recent University of North Carolina scandal, a learning specialist hired to help athletes found that during the period from 2004 to 2012, 60 percent of the 183 members of the football and basketball teams read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. About 10 percent read below a third-grade level. These were students with high-school diplomas and admitted to UNC. And it's not likely that UNC is the only university engaging in such gross fraud.
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