Doctors and engineers of tomorrow.
Very few people should be in college.
On The Job Training is superior for most professions.
Some professions really need higher education. College is appropriate for those few.
Currently, college is 4 years of fun for a lot of people.
Seriously — unless they are going into engineering, chemistry, physics or the like, they should LEAVE COLLEGE and pursue a skilled trade!
What universities?
What majors?
Who is answering seriously?
Every 18-21 year old male is a smartass.
I’m in my 40’s and still a smartass.
I was talking to a guy who works at King Sooper’s and he was telling me how the young people they hire complain that working in the grocery store is too hard for them.
What a bunch of WIMPS!
Going to college is simple compared to most manual labor jobs. I went to college and worked at the same time.
The only excuse they may have is that their high school public education only taught them how to claim they are victims, instead of the three R’s.
LOL!
I went back for my MBA a few years back. Could not believe the lack of rigor when compared with my undergraduate studies 3 decades ago.
“87% of students say college is ‘too difficult’ but refuse to study more”
Tell that to my son a Senior in Engineering at USI. Took him three try’s to pass a Calculus 4 course , but he did and now will be graduating this Spring with a 3.0+ GPA.
College is supposed to be freakin hard, it’s what prepares you for the real world.
Did my share of all nighters to make it through…that’s what you did back then.
The dumbing down of United States of America continues at a furious pace.
Kurtz also expressed some concern for how this trend could hinder the future workforce. “Obviously, students coddled with reduced expectations for work in college will fail in the workforce, or corrupt it, or both,” Kurtz said.
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I’ve already witnessed this in my own office. Now I’ll grant, many of the young hires we get are talented, pleasant to work with, and really push themselves on the projects. But we’ve had a few clunkers who seemed horrified that a salaried 9-5 worker may have to work on occasion beyond the hours of 9-5.
And in truth, it probably IS too hard for them, because the greatest failure in our education system is happening in K -12, especially elementary school, because if they aren’t achieving at grade level in 6th, it just gets worse in jr. high and high school.
When I was in school, it was 1 credit hour plus three homework hour per week per course. So a full time load was 50 hrs per week school and 40 hrs per week working.
No frats, occasional dates, few parties, rare games... iwas just too damn busy.
Freaking kids these days...
College is SUPPOSED TO BE DIFFICULT.
If you can't hack it, GTFO!.
All I can say is...wow. No wondercustomer service is so poor in the working world.
I went to college without high school..I only finished 9th grade and part of 10th grade. I graduated college with honors and awards.
It wasn’t easy but neither was it overly difficult. I had to put about 3 hours of study for every hour of class.
There were only 3 professors who taught at the university level while two of those gave me awards.
It was not easy, but neither was it impossibly difficult. Some classes were watered down and weren’t worth the time spent in the classes.
Early grade school can go far in preparing students for college, but today’s teachers really need a different teaching philosophy. Most are not natural teachers and students are being ripped off.
I absolutely love education and learning but I dispise most public education.
The difficulty is often due to professors (usually teaching assistants) who don't actually know the material and don't know how to teach. College is a night and day difference to taking instruction from someone who can actually do what they're teaching you.
I've been there. Studying more wasn't going to help. I saw students walk out of classes in frustration because they couldn't understand the foreign instructor who had poor command of the English language and didn't know the material anyway. From what I see with younger employees, it's gotten far, far worse.
Back then one might find a good tutor. Now, I recommend checking the web. For example, for car gear heads out there, here's a link to "Engineering Explained", a YouTube channel owned by Jason Fenske. He not only understands the material, he can teach it very well.
https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringExplained/videos
I'd add that folks like Hickok45 and Paul Harrell can teach much better than most college instructors.
If I was smart, I’d be able to figure out what source(s) today’s younger folks will use to harangue yutes in 40 years.
I’d be rich by getting in on the ground floor...!!
Lets correct that headline: “87% Of Students Shouldn’t Be In College”