You don’t even have to do that.
Essentially all our knowledge is in books and online.
If you want to know about something, you can teach yourself.
When your business gets big enough, you can hire others with the needed talents where you direct and delegate the overall work.
Nobody questions the rising cost of higher education. The private university my husband attended has raised tuition 100% in 13 years. Even state schools are way up. You’d be investigated for price gouging in any other industry.
Then we have a financial aid system that takes our money and gives it to those that didn’t plan or save for school. We’re going to have to come up with all the cash to pay for my children’s education, but my neighbor saved nothing, spent everything and her daughter gets full aid. The girls want to be roommates at a certain school, but I don’t know if we can afford it.
If you're not good enough to get a scholarship, you'd better be good enough to go to a trade school.
If you're not good enough or have the money to get into trade school, you better be physically fit.
Time to take responsibility and......
Deal with it.
My son went to his last class last night for his Bachelor in Business.
The best gift my wife and I could have ever given him is for him to graduate college and not owe a dime.
It’s called Florida’s prepaid college program.
About 48 dollars a month from the time he was one.
The cost of Administrative overhead and professors’ salaries needs to be visited as we have visited the cost of government.
These ivory tower elitists need to be brought into line with the rest of society.
These costs are outrageous.
I paid $400 per semester for full courses back in the 1960s.
While there may be a modest cost to take the exam, with the Internet nearly all of the lectures and materiasl could be free. Those producing the lectures and content found on the Internet could actually do very well financially if they accepted advertising.
The exams could start in first grade. When a child masters a specific subject, he would take the private qualifying exam in that topic. If he passes he would move to the next level in that subject.
Any child of any age should be allowed to take a GED-type exam which would be more comprehensive. If he passes, he would be awarded an official high school diploma directly from his local government high school.
Even on the college level many of the courses could be offered on-line for tuition-free. Proof of mastery of the topic would be a qualifying exam. Even many of the courses found in the professions could be on-line.
Benefits:
** Bright and ambitious children could move into adulthood more quickly. They could start employment, a trade, or business sooner. They could marry, buy a home sooner, and start life debt free. This irrational extension of childhood into the late twenties and early thirties could be completely avoided. Also, young people could avoid much of the toxic and degrading college campus culture.
** A brisk private tutoring industry would emerge.
** Children and parents could learn self-sufficiency in learning. They would be far less dependent on the government schools.
** Far fewer government schools and teachers would be needed. This would be a tremendous boost to state budgets and the tax payer.
ARe these prices for private or public universities? My daughter will be applying to study in Germany... tuition isn’t really a cost, unless you think 600 euros per semester is steep lol. We figured living costs will end up being the price we’d pay for her to attend an instate University here in the states... of course she’s had to work her butt off, to accumulate enough AP classes and exams that will put her on par with having a Bac or Abitur.