Against Higher Education

Townhall.com ^ | May 30, 2018 | John Stossel

[Mafe]

Today, all Americans are told, "Go to college!"

President Obama said, "College graduation has never been more valuable."

But economist Bryan Caplan says that most people shouldn't go.

"How many thousands of hours did you spend in classes studying subjects that you never thought about again?" he asks.

Lots, in my case. At Princeton, I learned to live with strangers, play cards and chase women, but I slept through boring lectures, which were most of them. At least tuition was only $2,000. Now it's almost $50,000. "People usually just want to talk about the tuition, which is a big deal, but there's also all the years that people spend in school when they could have been doing something else," points out Caplan in my new YouTube video.

"If you just take a look at the faces of students, it's obvious that they're bored," he says. "People are there primarily in order to get a good job."

That sounds like a good reason to go to college. But Caplan, in his new book, "The Case Against Education," argues that there's little connection between what we absorb in college and our ability to do a job.

[Stasiu]

Going to a University or Collage should not be a right, it must be a privilege. When I think of University personally, I see people doing the very hard STEM subject, sitting with retired doctors of chemical engineers doing what they did, and not everyone should be there.

[GailA]

2 yr College Tech Schools require higher Math, and some other stuff besides the Tech. Hubby taught Electronics/Computers at a JR College for 20 yrs ended up Dept Chair. That was after 20 yrs doing and teaching the same things in the Navy, Retiring as a SCPO. Had to get Teachers Degree to do it.