College is over-rated mainly in that the first two years of a 4 year degree is “general education” and only the last two years are for the “major”. And that it is very hard to guess what major will be in job demand upon graduation.
My first B.S. major was a waste as the field that was crying out for that subject area when I started, was glutted by the time I graduated. My sister’s English B.A. of course was a waste as it did not generate job offers, other than the Peace Corps.
I should have become a plumber or a politician as they get the big bucks for dealing in sleaze.
There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that people with college degrees in women’s studies, liberal arts, history, English, etc. end up working at Barnes and Noble or Target.
Nothing wrong with such jobs, but, they don’t require college degrees.
The media completely distorts what was said and what the subject here is, as usual. But we should have a national debate about college, and who should go to college, and what financial aid should be available. Too many degrees don’t translate into jobs or a career path.
It’s good to ask the question as to what you can do with certain degrees. For example, women’s studies may be fascinating as an academic field, but how many employers need people to study women after graduation? Philosophy may be fascinating, but how many employers recruit to find philosophers who majored in Philosophy?
RE: College is over-rated mainly in that the first two years of a 4 year degree is “general education”
Why can’t we have this “general education” in the last 2 years of high school?