“You are missing the point. We don’t teach our children to avoid college, we teach them to learn skills so they won’t NEED college to make a buck.”
So let me clarify, then: do you see any purpose at all to education besides “making a buck”?
i've been following this exchange between the two of you with interest... "education" does not have to mean "university/college." in fact, many--not all--but many colleges today will serve your child garbage for a lot of money... talk with any conservative professor... he will likely tell you the same... as a homeschooling parent, i plan on my oldest son taking some online course through "Escondido Tutorials" in the upcoming years... it's classic education at its finest... a homeschool friend of mine had her daughter take these courses... the gal is now in college... the college work is drivel compared to what she's received before college...
education to us is important... no matter what our children become... doctor, lawyer, preacher, mechanic, farmer... and we are hoping for some further formal studies after high school... likely college... however, we will not get into debt for it... we do not see the value in that...
Of course I do. However the context of this discussion is economic in nature (eg. "does it pay"). And my thesis is that it does not; that parents are better serving their children by teaching them how to create their own wealth, and use education for self-fulfillment and intellectual exploration.