[cripplecreek]

While we have an unemployment level above 2 or 3 percent, immigration should be restricted and we should be making sure that we’re educating enough (but not too many) kids for the most sought after jobs.

I never thought I would be happy to see my niece walk away from college but her reasons made it worthwhile. She says the college was impoverishing her and training her for a job that will be filled by a “guest worker” anyway. She figured out that Western Michigan University was creating a dependent and enriching the system that points fingers at everyone else.

She went from learning physical therapy for brain injured patients to learning tool and die making while on the job. Meanwhile she’s working part time with mentally disabled adults in an adult foster home.

[OddLane]

Piling up a load of debt for a degree that you might or might not be able to utilize once you graduate when you can train in a field that will actually benefit you financially doesn't make sense.

Not that there isn't genuine value in a classical liberal arts education, but the notion that the typical college education today benefits every student is absurd, IMO.

Especially when it's being bankrolled by a mountain of debt.