Colleges need to be fewer, farther between, and privately funded.
If anything, we need more trade schools and apprenticeship programs. College should be for those who can pay or can get the grades to win privately funded scholarships.
“In a recent book, “Academically Adrift,” sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa report that 45 percent of college students hadn’t significantly improved their critical thinking and writing skills after two years; “
Learning to think critically hasn’t been taught in years. Just suspended so the progressive claptrap could be forced down students’ throats
Yep, college is overrated.
From a classic country song,: ‘Gotta Sell Them Chickens”
“Well, my pappy told me as I was sittin’ on his knee About the birds and the bees and such
You can do right proud in a college crowd But you ain’t gonna learn that much
Get your degree in the ABC’s Then dig out the cold hard facts
You’ve got to sell them chickens before they die And the eggs before they hatch”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDy1IhZXJw
And from another country classic,”She’s a T-Bone Talkin Woman But She Gots a Hot Dog Heart”
“Now, I aint an educated feller, I didn’t go too far in school, but I can tell the difference between a horse and a mule”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29I4VRf5E-g
The problem is you cannot make people equally smart so your only option is to make them equally dumb.
IMO educational degrees that do not lead to some profession should be paid for totally by the student. If the courses you are taking do not lead to some profession or worse takes a job away from someone without a college degree then why am I, through my taxes, investing in you?
Unfortunately, most employers now use a four-year degree as a hiring filter. No matter how relevant to the position and no matter how much experience an applicant has.
Basically, we have a government agency, the Department of Education, that has jacked up the price of college, diminished the value of a college degree, decreased the percentage of low-income student enrollment, and created a generation of debt slaves. And all of that at a cost of only $70 billion dollars a year to the taxpayers. As the congress is struggling to find even a billion dollars to cut out of our enormous budget, here’s $70 billion on a silver platter.
Wish I owned a couple of residence halls, they are cashing in on those . . . 4 bedroom type set-up @ 3400.00 semester so almost 30K for JUST ONE dorm room. Not even counting any summer session residents. This doesn’t include food either.
We’ve got tuition covered with scholarships and will spend college savings on the rest and hopefully have a little left over IF the market doesn’t tank anytime soon . . . lost a lot in ‘08.
They do not teach kids in the lower grades but they want them all to go to College?
My son is 18 and he is enlisting in the Army, he has already made Sergent in his JROTC.
I agree college is a socialists wet dream, a farm to breed future socialists and a place to harvest them.
Less college, more vocational training and more apprenticeships. There is good money to be made in plumbing, electrical work, welding, etc.
Thanks. More interesting stats here: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html#Sec13