Posted on 01/23/2010 3:19:42 AM PST by Scanian
More to the point, the question should be “Is it worth going deeply in debt so that you can get a superfluous college degree?”
Except for careers that require very specialized learning, such as engineering and medicine, many college degrees today are just a paper chase with little bearing on future career performance. The sorry statistic is that future performance between legitimate college degree employees and diploma mill employees is close to identical.
From a personal perspective, a college degree just means that marriage, children, home ownership, and prosperity are delayed, almost past the point where they are no longer worth it. Children, especially, are for the young. If you have to wait until you are in your 40s before you can “afford” children, a lot of people will give up or be unable to have children.
From a business perspective, a college degree so useless that they have to retrain their new hires in even basic skills, just means that they lose four of the most productive years in their employees careers.
So all it takes for the system to come crashing down, is for the major employers to decide that new hires, degree or not, will be “tested in”, as the only requirement for hiring. The higher the test score, the more likely that someone will be hired, whether they’ve just graduated from college, or just graduated from high school, or even have a GED.
Many already “test in” new hires, but they insist that those new hires present that piece of paper first. And once they realize that piece of paper is nothing more than an indicator that the prospective employee is deeply in debt, they may decide that it is unimportant.
Amazing that title 9 give preference to women when they have been the majority on campuses for over a decade.
“chickification?”
I’ve heard that in the next season of ‘24’ Jack Bauer will be a woman.
+1
The reason, I think, is that there are too many people out there that think ‘sex’ is a dirty word and it’s more polite to use ‘gender.’
It wasn't so long ago in our nation's history that young men attended Harvard and Yale in their early teens.
Our current government school model of education is designed to keep kids infantilized. The purpose is to keep minimally talented white collar workers ( mostly women) employed feeding at the government money trough.
My own homeschoolers started college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. All three finished their general college requirements and Calculus III by the age of 15. The two younger kids earned B.S. degrees in math by that age of 18.
Being able to enter the workforce 4 years earlier than their equally credentialed peers adds up to a whopping quarter to a half MILLION dollars in earnings in their lifetimes. And..They are done with their formal education early enough to marry and have kids without being on the verge of needed knee replacements and hip surgery.
At which point they already knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, math, English, and often another modern language.
Many people, of course, were not educated at all, but those who were, actually knew something!
#5 Great post....thanks!
Yes!
Drexel U, School of Engineering.....that's where my 18yr old grandson is.
“When women and the complicit media stop putting down men, stop showing us as bumbling oafs in sitcoms, stop over-sexualizing women, stop feminizing men, stop bastardizing good fathers and promoting divorce, stop promoting the degradation of the family and the homosexual agendas, and stop pushing this militant feminist agenda down the throats of schoolchildren, maybe then, and only then, will boys again be boys and maybe, just maybe, they’ll learn how to grow into men”
Brilliant.
Thanks
The nations schools, much like the nation’s “mainstream” broadcast network news shows, newspapers, and news magazines, are run and staffed by feminine and the effeminate persons who hate males, so...
“the nation’s schools”, and
It's also designed to limit competition for semi-skilled union jobs from bright, energetic young males who like working with "things" and are bored by college prep-type curriculum.
As a woman I must say........
AMEN!
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