i disagree... i am not sending my kids to college to learn a trade... they can do that outside of college... in fact, instead of sending students to college to learn a trade, they ought to have more "trade schools" or apprenticeships... college should be for the deep thinkers, learners... like it was when Thomas Jefferson studied... and it should not be so easy for anybody and everybody to get in... from the beginning of our boys' academic lives, we have aimed to teach them how to think--not what to think... i want their college years to continue in that vain where they take what they think and begin to demonstrate it, communicate it through speaking and writing... continue to discover it in their science and logic studies...
some of the Founding Fathers were classically educated, and were also very hands-on, physical men who could farm and ranch... hunt and build... that is what i want for my boys... i want them to be men who can do constructive things with their hands (a trade), and who can not only read a law and understand it, but have the skill to write one... we want them to be what is considered the whole man... cultivating their hands, minds and spirits...
our hope is they are free thinkers and lifelong learners...
Today's education, for the most part, either ignores the soul or works to deprave it.
Well how about this ....... we don’t send everyone with a pulse that barely finished high school to a four year college on federal grants and loans.
I believe maybe 25% - 40% of those going to a four year college should be going.
We’ve got way too many 25 - 26 year olds that have never really worked a day in their lives. They’re 25- 26 and have no experience. That’s one of the reasons we had so many illegals come over here. They were willing to work.
Again, college isn’t for everyone.