Just some stupid questions: Why does everyone have to go to college? Why not go to a trade or vocational school that teaches practical things?
Unless you are taking hard science or math related courses, the crap being taught in college is pretty much useless (unless you want to be an academic).
Forget any degree that ends in “studies” — totally worthless. Likewise social studies and liberal arts are pretty worthless too. Going hundreds of thousands into debt is totally stupid. Fifty percent of graduating college seniors CANNOT find jobs.
The reason why students are pressed to go to college is a hold over from the Great Depression. College grad were less likely to be unemployed when jobs for average guys were hard to find or nonexistent. This is no longer the case. This is 2012 and not 1932.
Good idea.
Add to that how about cutting out a bunch of those social engineering/Liberal indoctrination courses so that you can once again complete a four year degree in four years.
Many appreticeships and such are free as the wind. As for the Great Depression, my late father (USMC 1943-65) always said that the only people who had money back then were salesmen.
I think a better question is why do we have to use public funds to shore up the loans just so the schools can continue to raise prices? Why should liberal academia not have to cut costs like the rest of America?
“Just some stupid questions: Why does everyone have to go to college? Why not go to a trade or vocational school that teaches practical things?”
Begin liberal/liberal parent rationale:
Because my child/I am special and too intelligent/special/royalty to spend my life in some meaningless job. That’s for commoners. THOSE people are here for people like me/my child to lead.
End Lib BS.
Seriously, talk to a few libs if you can stomach it. They really have no problem admitting this. They only give birth to ‘indigo kids’ so meaningless jobs, AKA anything less than 6 figures net, is beneath them. Thats the mentality that a lifetime of being told they were ‘special’ leads to.
Personally, I’d be shocked if they didn’t become a bunch of delusional, entitlement cases.
Probably because a lot of middle-class parents see trade/vocational schools as something "low class".
My wife and I both attended vocational school. I went through a 10-month electronics program after my Marine Corps service (VEAP took care of most of that tab) and my wife went to a programming school where she learned how to program COBOL in a 9-month program. This was in the early 1980s. Since then it's been mostly six figure income for both of us and we've never been out of work - except those few years my wife voluntarily left the work force when the kids were little. Never had college loans hanging over our heads and we were able to purchase a fairly substantial home when we were still young.
I won't go as far to say that college is a waste of time and money but it really isn't necessary either unless you are pursuing a truly specialized career such as medicine, law or engineering.
As a hiring manager at my current company, our top performers are as likely to be high school grads as college grads. In fact, many college grads wash out of my industry. It truly seems that many of them come into the workforce thinking they shouldn't have to work as hard because they have a college degree.
In 2012, young people had better learn a practical skill usually found in a vocational school. Those folks will find work when would be CEOs are starving.