Posted on 06/13/2015 5:32:07 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Pick up any paper or magazine, and you’re likely to see a front-page article on college: It costs too much, spawns too much debt is or isn’t worth it. I entered academia 52 years ago as a student of Latin and Greek expecting to enter a placid sector of American life, and now find my chosen profession at the center of a media maelstrom. With college replacing high school as the required ticket for a career, what used to be a quiet corner is now a favorite target of policymakers and pundits. Unfortunately, most commentary on the value of college is naive, or worse, misleading. Here’s what I mean. First, most everyone now evaluates college in purely economic terms, thus reducing it to a commodity like a car or a house. How much does the average English major at college X earn 18 months after graduation? What is the average debt of college Y’s alumni? How much does it cost to attend college Z, and is it worth it? How much more does the “average” college grad earn over a lifetime than someone with only a high school degree? (The current number appears to be about $1 million.) There is now a cottage industry built around such data.
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Excellent!
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge
MOST
Spent most of my junior and senior years in a conservative business school. Best things they taught me were to know when you didn’t know the answer, where to go to find the answer, and equip me with the tools to understand the answer once found. One professor even gave an extra credit test question in advance and encouraged/challenged students to find the answer in the library.
900% increase since 1981
I’m sure governent meddling had nothing to
do with that.
Conservatives with a college education can count the number of votes in an election.
Liberals with a college education can tell you how to get more people to vote for the Democrat candidate in an election.
A college education is less about what you learn than about who you establish relationships with. That is why a degree from one of the ivy league, elite schools is worth more. It is not because the education is superior. It is because of the people you connect with.
What high schools need are shop classes.
Hard work beats Talent when Talent quits working hard.
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