Posted on 10/01/2014 10:42:29 PM PDT by poinq
When we reach the end of high school, we approach the next life, the university life, in the manner of children writing letters to Santa. Oh, we promise to be so very good. We open our hearts to the beloved institution. We get good grades. We do our best on standardized tests. We earnestly list our first, second, third choices. We tell them what we want to be when we grow up. We confide our wishes. We stare at the stock photos of smiling students, we visit the campus, and we find, always, that it is so very beautiful.
And when that fat acceptance letter comes—oh, it is the greatest moment of personal vindication most of us have experienced. Our hard work has paid off. We have been chosen.
Then several years pass, and one day we wake up to discover there is no Santa Claus. Somehow, we have been had. We are a hundred thousand dollars in debt, and there is no clear way to escape it. We have no prospects to speak of. And if those damned dreams of ours happened to have taken a particularly fantastic turn and urged us to get a PhD, then the learning really begins.
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“Today, college is nothing more than getting your ticket to join the “college club.””
BINGO!!!
“Notice that as the quality of education plummets the cost of education “necessarily skyrockets”. “
Notice that they want to fix the problem by throwing more money at it. Money is always the solution. But never solves the problem.
“We don’t need no fancy book kearnin’!”
Not at $250 per book. Why do we need a new edition to an Algebra book. Is there a new Algebra since last year?
“I sent my kids to state schools, and they commuted. Others, especially those in the Northeast that don’t have such easy options, can spend their retirement on their kids’ partying.”
How did they turn out?
Didn’t learn much from it, evidently.
Best and brightest?
Maybe the best cheaters and @$$ kissers.
international students are also exempt from feesThere are over 380 officially recognized universities throughout Germany, and they offer a total of over 15,000 study programs.
Doing great, thanks. All with useful degrees (technical/scientific), now working. They appreciated staying home and knew that they had to follow the (reasonable) rules in the house, both because they still lived there, and because they were getting a free ride through college. It wasn’t a bad deal for them, just a continuation of prior schooling, basically.
They’re still young, so maybe some people will look down a bit on them, eventually, but where I work (a larger company), we don’t seem to care where people get the degrees, just that they got the right ones (and the schools, of course, are accredited). Beyond that, it’s up to the individual to perform and if they do, they will climb.
Indeed!
I agree that Germany has a lot of colleges and that they are free. But I do not understand how we know if they are any good.
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