Listen Up Obama, Students Don’t Want Your Free Education(What Free Education?)

Townhall.com ^ | January 10, 2015 | Ashley Pratte

[pepsionice]

I would point this out....generally, depending on what state you live in....community college for one year will run roughly $1,500 to $2,000. You live at home or do it while working full-time. The community college has no upper-level professors or instructors....so they aren’t saddled with outrageous yearly salary. No sports program, and no housing program.

I caught a Wall Street Journal item this week....talking about this kid who went through the CC-system, graduated with a degree in welding, and at the age of twenty-four....is making $130,000 a year. There are various ways that Community College is a better deal than a four-year university, and probably half the kids in the four-year method....are wasting time and money on a degree that simply won’t pay itself back.

[vis a vis]

LOL-—good one. Ill have to steal it.

[DaveA37]

A “formal” education is NOT “free”, someone pays for it, perhaps not the recipient but the tax payers. Coincidentally, a “street education” is often times paid for by the tax payers as well but in many different ways.

[hinckley buzzard]

Exactly. Same as what has happened due to pervasive student loans.

[hinckley buzzard]

With the recent revitalization of the manufacturing sector in and around Cleveland, such trades people are in demand. Openings for welders etc are widely advertised.

[RipSawyer]

Just what we need, more millions of “college graduates” who don’t have what used to be an eighth grade public school education. They come out now with a major in history and don’t recognize the terms Battle of Hastings, Magna Charta or even American Revolution. It used to be said that a history major was only good if you planned to teach history but apparently it is useless for that now. Inflation is rampant in everything, a twenty dollar bill now buys about as much food as a one used to buy and a bachelor degree is equivalent to an old time sixth grade education at best. The worst part is that the students graduating have been so misled and undereducated that they believe they really are the, “Most educated generation in history” even though they don’t know the difference between your and you’re and don’t have a clue about pronoun usage.