Back in the 1920's, both my grandmothers got teaching certificates at age 19 after attending Normal school for a year. One eventually retired in 1975 and was considered one of the finest math teachers around. Now, because of "Big college", prospective teachers are forced to take classes that do nothing to help them teach a class (if anything, they're force-fed crap that keeps them from becoming good teachers).
Come to think of it, why do you have to go to "Big College" to become a good lawyer? Abe Lincoln never went to college, but he became a great lawyer. Dickie Scruggs, convicted felon and longtime Democrat Party contributor, was a Law School graduate.
If you want to control costs of "Big College", you have to introduce competition. Internet schools like the University of Phoenix is only a hint of how to bring down costs, to keep our kids from being indoctrinated by angry Socialists and their handlers in "Big college" Administration.
You left out the money quote:
“The one thing if I were to sort of leave the profession with a wish...it would be that my college in the future and the institutions that support them focus on family financial planning—getting families to start planning for their college expenses early,” he said. “Money saved early is so, so more valuable than money saved late. Families can make a staggering difference if they will begin early.” He said that the “new systems” don’t penalize parents for saving, but encourage it.
He added that paying for college is a team game and “but the player that’s perhaps most important in the long run is the parent.”
“Everybody can save on a little something and a little something saved over time can really make important differences.”
In other words, the solution to soaring college and university tuition is for parents to make and save and invest more money so that they will be better able to support the institutions’ revenue streams when the kids reach age 18.
That is such helpful and encouraging advice. I can see now that my duty is to shut up and pay up, so that this carnival of unreality called college will welcome my own fine children in to see the sights, ride the rides and leave with a beautiful souvenir diploma.
Ok, I better get back to work so I can pay for this.
Statistics show that a college education results in higher earnings over one’s lifetime. I read a study recently that kind of flipped this idea on its head, arguing that college kids tend to be more motivated thus their higher incomes are based on motivation and willingness to work hard for delayed gratification, and not their college degree.
...logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a “perv dad for fun.”
janet napolitano's looking for people who use the word "constitution" - her boys aren't looking for the gentle wonderful empathetic liberals who rape kids too young to be in kindergarten...
Your taxpayer dollars at work...