The degree is losing its value.
Only in US Federal government (always a decade behind), is it still the end all.
Dropping standards: degrees neither mean a kid can think nor posses any of the skills required.
Worthless degrees/majors: more and more liberal arts degrees that have no practical application anywhere. A degree for the sake of having a degree for an urban yuppie kid that is expected to get a degree but neither has an interest nor any special talent.
Massive supply: near 1/2 of adult Americans have about 2 years of college. 1/3 have a bachelors. ~ 1/7 have a masters. So 1/2 of all Americans have jobs that require academic training? Really? We already have FAR more degrees than there are real positions only we have a mismatch, i.e. not enough people get the real degrees (engineering, medicine...) and a lot get degrees in gender and womyns studies, history (another school teacher), kenesiology...
The trades are no place for degrees: For years colleges and universities have been getting into the business of training people for what are “trades.” Jobs you do with your hands, like a car mechanic, airplane mechanic, nurse, fireman, law enforcement. These are things that require muscle memory, experience, working the job and physically doing it, not learning about it in a class with a textbook. Colleges and universities are actually horrible venues to learn these trades well.
Never had a child, myself, but if I had, he would have never got a dime for college unless he was going into a field that required a degree.
Trade school, maybe, but not a bigbox college.
EXACTLY!
Don’t go to college. Learn an actual skill. Lean to work on engines. Learn to fix boats. Learn to do plumbing. Learn electrical repair. Learn to invest in real estate.
You’ll get rich cuz the idiots with all the “degrees” won’t know how to do anything.