College degrees officially jumped the shark when people spent $30K a year in tuition to qualify for a $25K a year job after they graduate. Aside from SOME BA degrees, and engineering/math/science degrees, most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
I relate this often, but I was at a baby shower with my wife a few years back. There were a lot of “professional educators” there.
You should have seen the looks of shock and gasps of disbelief when I said “not everyone is fit for college, you know”.
My kids have science degrees from front line colleges.
The daughter earned the tuition back in three years.
The son went into the US Army as a 2nd. Lt. Spent four years working for bubba.
Came out of the service, resigned his commission and it took him a very short time to earn back the tuition.
In both cases the tuition after four years was a bit over $100,000.
Neither took anything remotely connected to ‘liberal’ classes. One skirted the loony lib profs by taking photography as the required liberal arts class and the other took several languages which qualified for liberal arts classes.
That should be printed on every American university brochure, much like the "cancer" warning on cigarette packs.
I experienced significant professional success, nationally and internationally, without the benefit of any college degree whatsoever. Ability trumps education in all cases (except academia and government, where ability doesn't matter at all).
I'm now pursuing a PhD simply out of spite.
“College degrees officially jumped the shark when people spent $30K a year in tuition to qualify for a $25K a year job after they graduate. Aside from SOME BA degrees, and engineering/math/science degrees, most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.”
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Spot on. They leave college after incurring a huge debt and still have far less than what used to be a free public high school education. Then they apply for the type of job that used to be done by a tenth grade dropout. Then if they ever work up to a thousand a week it buys less at the grocery store than the eighty a week people used to make fifty years ago straight out of public high school. Some great system we have going and it gets worse every day.