OK, but does it have to take four years and cost $125,000? I can't believe that the particular set of job skills you cite couldn't be imparted more quickly and cheaply, and with less political indoctrination.
Now, if people actually want to go and get a true education--to read the classics, to understand art, science, literature, a foreign culture, and history, to write and think--that does take time and is worth quite a lot of money. But not many college kids are actually getting much of an education these days.
Speaking here as the mother of a young woman who is trying to get an education.
$125,000? Yipes!
I graduated with a BSc Computer Science in the late 1990s. It cost me $1500-$2000 per semester including books. Total cost for 4 years about $12,000-$16,000 dollars. I went to UofH main campus in Houston, TX.
Now, if people actually want to go and get a true education—to read the classics, to understand art, science, literature, a foreign culture, and history, to write and think—that does take time and is worth quite a lot of money. But not many college kids are actually getting much of an education these days.”
Good post. This is sort of the flip side of what Murray is talking about.
Think about it. Imagine a world where college did NOT equal getting a job. There would be ways to do that, including possibly the Certifications he talks about. Then...for those that want an education, college would be a possibility. And certainly there is no need in principle for it to cost a quarter of a million dollars.