Curriculum helps. Where's your $40,000 better spent, here or here?
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.
Agree 100%
IF Gov’t is to be involved at all, “college” should simply be locally-funded technical schools, for technical training. The land-grant and A&M universities of the mid-west were established to train, simply, farmers and mechanics. Train people for actual jobs, and actual things that help private industry.
The Federal Gov’t is doing to education what it did to housing.
I agree!
You are absolutely correct. For the last 9-1/2 years, I have driven to and from work along the same route. There is a steel fabricting plant on the way that has had the same sign out front for that entire time “Now Hiring - Welders.” We don’t need more art history majors, English majors, etc. We need plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, welders, etc.
I agree. The college for all mentality was briefly abandoned in my state in the 1970's for encouraging VOC/Tech courses. Then in stepped the every ones going to college policy makers and added college bound courses.
There are some students who simply are NEVER going to grasp subjects like Algebra or Geometry. It doesn't mean they are dumb or stupid it means they learn differently in a more practical way. I was one of those students.
In my senior year I did not attend high school. I was working for a company at 40 plus hours per week. That is the way it should be. I'm not knocking college. If a person has the tallent GOD love them go for it. But the everyone goes to college policies are bankrupting school systems and taxpayers. It is also have a huge negative affect on ones who could better spend the time wasted in advanced courses learning several trades. I encourage any kid today not going too college to learn several different trades. It will serve you well to do so.
This drives home my point about advanced classes and the everyone goes to college policy. I took a VOC/TECH course after my Navy service actually it was my second one. Yet again in came the advanced Math push even in those classes. The Math instructor insisted I had to have a pencil and paper on the job to be able to properly position an extension ladder aaginst a structure and he was dead serious. I looked at him and said here is what I will do. I position it at the tip of my feet on a sure and stable footing. I extend my arms straight out holding the sides of the ladder. If I can do that then the ladder is properly and safely placed. If I take out a pencil and paper to set a ladder I would be fired. I could not get him to grasp that simple time and industry honored concept anymore than he could get me to grasp advanced math.
Curriculum helps. Where's your $40,000 better spent, here or here?