College is ripping you off

Solon ^ | Oct 1st, 2014 | Thomas Frank

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“Today, college is nothing more than getting your ticket to join the “college club.””

BINGO!!!

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“Notice that as the quality of education plummets the cost of education “necessarily skyrockets”. “

Notice that they want to fix the problem by throwing more money at it. Money is always the solution. But never solves the problem.

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“We don’t need no fancy book kearnin’!”

Not at $250 per book. Why do we need a new edition to an Algebra book. Is there a new Algebra since last year?

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“I sent my kids to state schools, and they commuted. Others, especially those in the Northeast that don’t have such easy options, can spend their retirement on their kids’ partying.”

How did they turn out?

[Slings and Arrows]

Didn’t learn much from it, evidently.

[P-Marlowe]

Best and brightest?

Maybe the best cheaters and @$$ kissers.

[Berlin_Freeper]

international students are also exempt from fees

There are over 380 officially recognized universities throughout Germany, and they offer a total of over 15,000 study programs.

Universities in Germany

[BobL]

Doing great, thanks. All with useful degrees (technical/scientific), now working. They appreciated staying home and knew that they had to follow the (reasonable) rules in the house, both because they still lived there, and because they were getting a free ride through college. It wasn’t a bad deal for them, just a continuation of prior schooling, basically.

They’re still young, so maybe some people will look down a bit on them, eventually, but where I work (a larger company), we don’t seem to care where people get the degrees, just that they got the right ones (and the schools, of course, are accredited). Beyond that, it’s up to the individual to perform and if they do, they will climb.

[Ted Grant]

Indeed!

[poinq]

I agree that Germany has a lot of colleges and that they are free. But I do not understand how we know if they are any good.