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A Lucrative Technical School or a Four-Year College Degree?
Canada Free Press ^ | 12/24/17 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

Posted on 12/24/2017 12:38:47 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

Not every college student I have ever taught was really college material, motivated enough to succeed, or even enjoyed being in college. Some could have benefited from attending a trade school or a technical college

A Lucrative Technical School or a Four-Year College Degree? “The Ideologies that killed more than 100 million people last century are being praised at our universities today.” - Turning Point USA

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a skilled technician to fix anything. Everything is disposable – something breaks down, let’s buy a new one. There are fewer and fewer technical and trade schools and, even if there were more, American students are not interested in learning a trade. They have been conditioned by society and by their parents that, unless they get a four-year college degree, anything else is not worth their effort and time.


TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: collegedegree; debt; education; technicalschool
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To: EEGator

You make it sound like all ya need to do is show up at the power company and they put you to work

Like I said, “Not that easy”


21 posted on 12/24/2017 1:01:00 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: EEGator
Become a lineman


22 posted on 12/24/2017 1:02:35 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: 109ACS

Agreed. Unless you’re a doctor, lawyer, etc. All a degree does is show a perspective employer that you started something and saw it through to completion.


23 posted on 12/24/2017 1:02:42 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Sean_Anthony

It depends on the kid. We have four. One tried college and didn’t like it. Stopped at associates degree. Number 2 works full time and is completing her degree online.

Number 3 actually is a rocket scientist. He’ll graduate as an astronautical engineer in may.

Number 4 will be a tradesman. He’s thinking of being a trucker. Taking CDL school in March.

The educational cabal mentality of college for all is misguided, expensive and stupid.


24 posted on 12/24/2017 1:03:09 PM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: dfwgator

“... I would think, an employer would be impressed with someone who took the initiative and went out of their comfort zone...”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No employer will be impressed because you never went out of your comfort zone. You will be having too much fun. You’d be surprised of the number of Americans who studied in Europe and never returned home. There are Americans living in Europe who were home last when they went to Europe as a G.I.


25 posted on 12/24/2017 1:03:30 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Kickass Conservative

A rocket scientist might design a missile that efficiently kills our enemies.


26 posted on 12/24/2017 1:04:42 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: CGASMIA68

Do you work at a utility?


27 posted on 12/24/2017 1:07:42 PM PST by EEGator
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To: dhs12345

Should I have said Lawyer instead of Rocket Scientist?


28 posted on 12/24/2017 1:09:15 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Puppage

Wichita.


29 posted on 12/24/2017 1:09:46 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Sean_Anthony

In Wisconsin engineers start at 100-150K and that’s just for the run of the mill guy ...


30 posted on 12/24/2017 1:11:02 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: EEGator

LOL


31 posted on 12/24/2017 1:11:10 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: tennmountainman

If you don’t want to be crippled with debt, work your way through tech/trade school.

If you or your family are rich enough to get through university with no debt on graduation, then go to university, graduate with a degree in junk like lesbian studies or something even easier. Because if you have that much money, what you know doesn’t matter.


32 posted on 12/24/2017 1:14:29 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: dfwgator

I think a some stuff taught in colleges could be done in technical schools. For instance, nursing, computer programming, business administration, etc. There should be more competition in education instead of funneling everybody through universities to learn skills.


33 posted on 12/24/2017 1:15:54 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Puppage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skuEiYfnSFg


34 posted on 12/24/2017 1:19:10 PM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: virgil

I don’t think business admin can be taught at a tech school because of the ancillary courses required with it, ie, accounting, economics, and organizational development. If your trade school has those, it’s a college, mate.


35 posted on 12/24/2017 1:20:17 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Lol. The missiles can be used on lawyers too. :)


36 posted on 12/24/2017 1:22:48 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: tennmountainman

My 16 year old is most definitely college material. He reads Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Sowell and Jung for fun. He’s not going to college.

He is enrolled as a post secondary student in the electrician program at the local community/technical college. State covers tuition (still costs state less than what it pays public schools per student) so our only costs are his tools. He will graduate at 18 ready to begin his career as an electrician, completely debt free and two years early.

He knows he can pursue his intellectual interests and continue his hobbies, music and writing (both fiction and non-fiction) while making a decent living doing something he enjoys.


37 posted on 12/24/2017 1:27:57 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: NorthstarMom

Bravo to your son.
Who knows what the future holds.
He might decide to get his contractors license too.


38 posted on 12/24/2017 1:32:31 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

We must send all students through the student-loan ringer so they can keep the Social Justice perfessers gainfully employed.


39 posted on 12/24/2017 1:33:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Further your education along the lines of being able to support yourself. Go where that leads. It won’t be to a degree in Asian lesbian studies.


40 posted on 12/24/2017 1:33:46 PM PST by Yaelle
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