I agree with you...it seems the idea is to get everyone in this country in debt up to their eyeballs as soon as possible through car loans, home loans, credit cards and education debt.
Why not learn the skills you need to do a particular job on your own, work the four years you would have attended college and have four years experience on your peers that majored in art history with a minor in english.
Education is a waste of time unless you are pursuing engineering, finance or law (and preferably two of the three.) In my opinion, it is hard to make a case for paying today’s tuition for any of the liberal arts programs.
“Education is a waste of time unless you are pursuing engineering, finance or law”
While I agree that majoring in communications (isn’t that talking?) or women’s studies/american cinema etc (would you like paper or plastic?) or even anthropology (would you like a large or small fry with your burger?) are mostly a waste of time and money...
I think my kids’ Nursing Major is a worthwhile college education! But I encouraged both of them to attend an excellent state college and not spend the extra premium money on a fancy private college.
I love art and literature but I also agree with you that it maybe not worth such a massive price tag. Someone once said we are all greater artists than we realize, and I mean that in the sense that we are constantly creating what we choose to perceive every second of every day.
Thanks to the federal reserve and various government programs we have highly infalted costs for just about everything, education being another in a long list. I studied the arts but I paid a pittance compared to what goes for tutition today, in fact I don’t think I would have studied it at all had I had to pay such high costs as today.
Finance and law seem to be the order of the day, but it seems more like religion to me at times, the cult of “natural law” but it helps pay the bills! That leaves engineering and that seems exciting to me still, areas such as quantum physics seem to be the cutting edge of science, though I don’t think anyone has any real sense of how uncertain that actually appears, though it also pays the bills to invent new stuff.
Trades seemed like a good area until the housing crash, but maybe medicine, but not now if it gets obamaized.