We’re trying to get our son (22, NOT living at home) to go back to college full time; there’s no better time than now, because he can’t find a job and Grandma will 100% bankroll him if he does so.
Of course, he knows what’s best, as do all of the unemployed 0bama voters out there. *Rolleyes*
And I totally agree; most of America has been dumbed down to the point where higher education is an impossibility for most...all by design, Comrade. All by design. ;)
People might not be smart enough to study at a college level, but people are smart enough to learn a new trade. During the Depression, technical correspondence schools flourished.
If the result would be a greater output of engineers, great. Unfortunately, the vast majority are going to be in the non-technical areas. Worse yet, more lawyers, MBAs, accountants, and other overhead personnel of which there already is a glut. And almost all of them are impossibly in debt.
So, they major in Political "Science", Ethnomania, Art Appreciation, "Journalism", or Gender Hatred, and along the way are programmed into good little Socialists who vote for "Change".
He also ignores the fact that many people are simply not smart enough to study subjects at a college level, for example taking calculus or producing a coherent, footnoted 20-page term paper using a variety of sources.
It’s not just that. Most jobs require at best a 1 or 2 year apprenticeship. Of course that wouldn’t support an army of liberal indoctrinators.
The ability of the Left to put happy faces on this major recession is incredible.
Hell; you don't even have to be a U.S. Citizen to get handouts now.
We've had the Democrats/Socialists create a dependent-class that assures they can stay in office, ALSO living off the earnings of working folks, and voting themselves raises and perks, at will.....
Is this a great country, or what?
What is so great about a bunch of people going back to school so they can pile up massive debts and still be unemployed?
Here’s one for you. I know a 30+ year old who is starting college this summer. She got a pell grant or something. The kicker is that she’s on social security disability for being bi-polar. So, our tax dollars are paying not only for her “disability,” they will also be paying for her to go to college.
This woman will never enter the workforce. She has never held a “real” job. She cleans houses or babysits every now and then, for which she gets paid off the books.
As a college professor, I can tell you that more people going to college is not necessarily a good things. There are many students in college today who clearly do not belong there. Either they are too lazy to do the work or they lack the preparation. I have one General Education class where one of the poorest students in the class told me he was a graduating senior. He wasn’t a major from my Dept, but it shocked me nontheless. Have a BA/BS degree today is probably the equivalent of a HS diploma circa 1950.
"War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," "Ignorance is Strength."
Wasn’t that trend going on well before that? Not saying that the Depression didn’t have an effect but perhaps it wasn’t as strong a cause as the author implies.
I think we push too much for college. We don’t need every high schooler to be on a college path. Its wasteful. Many jobs that require college degrees now don’t require college skills so we are wasting time and money in educating as many in college. I support a much stronger push for vocational skills.