Daddy I want to be a waiter when I grow up. Will you send me to get a $250,000 fine arts degree so I can do that? Please?
For a graduate degree I want to go to bar tending school so I can get a better job.
Robust arts depend on robust industry. As long as it doesn’t get into resolutely biting the hand that feeds it, arts are a wonderful pursuit. Trouble is, too often today, it does. Arts have forgotten who was paying for them, such as industry moguls.
If you’re going to bite the hand that has been feeding you, at least find a different hand to feed you first. Otherwise you will look pretty stupid in the end.
Daddy: Go become an apprentice for Uncle Jose. He’ll teach you the ropes.
I work at a community & technical college and had a debate this morning with a instructor from the community college side about how college is turning into a big liability for students and how the technical college aspect should be embraced. He was incredulous, why how can you think that I am here to just provide workers for business! I said are you not here to prepare students to be educated and to contribute to society and one major aspect of societal contribution being them employed? NO! I educate and train them to think, I want no part of training students for jobs.
I said well you can’t expect a student to take on $10K or more in community college loans and another $75K or more in loans if they go on to a four year college and then their whole job market consist of do I work for Burger King or McDonald’s? They are figuring it out, college is becoming a liability, your cutting off your nose despite your face.
Why would you not want a student who could graduate in two years with a nursing certification or a HVAC certification and immediately go to work? He was having none of it. Our current governor in Kentucky is demanding productivity and hard numbers from higher education, how are you helping prepare future workers and your funding will be based on that. I work with educated fools...