The case against college.

Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

The message is familiar. Colleges are youth ghettos. They promise more than they deliver. They serve as great social sorting machines and not as institutions of higher learning. Their students are pressured to attend by parents or peers and do not know what else to do. Their diplomas cost more—and are worth less—than ever before.
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Jeez, this article was written in 1975, that's even worse than that Tudor Jones video from the 80's.

Can you at least get something from this century to moan about?
 
Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

I would say a 4 year degree is the minimum requirement now for any job.
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Check that.

A 4 year degree is a minimum to get an interview these days. It's the post-grads that usually end up with the job.
 
College is a holding tank. The majority of 18 year olds are no where near ready to enter the work force. Gotta' keep them occupied somehow. Four more years of turning their minds in to mush seems appropriate, especially if you're preparing them for 40 years of the mind numbing tasks they'll be doing to keep the powers that be fat and happy.
 
Depends on your motivation as a student. You can make it worthy of your time, or you can spend four years screwing, drinking, eating pizza and collecting textbooks you never cracked open but that you must sell back to the bookstore as used.
 
A re-occuring theme I've read in a few biographies, people make contacts in college. You may be a flunkie, room or befriend another flunkie who has connections or money, whatever. You graduate, then get the phone call from the past for a job offer, project, etc.
 
Quote from Emini Maestro:

Depends on your motivation as a student. You can make it worthy of your time, or you can spend four years screwing, drinking, eating pizza and collecting textbooks you never cracked open but that you must sell back to the bookstore as used.
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and yet that pizza eating ass banging textbook collecting student can earn multiple times more in their lifetime than the bookworm...it's just the way life works. Nothing and I mean nothing guarantees you anything in life...
 
If you're smart, and we assume everyone on ET is, you should've had access to some scholarships. Furthermore, you don't choose the most expensive college, you choose the one that lets you remain liquid. That's what I did with my masters degree, no debt coming out of it and I have further education.
 
Quote from ElCubano:

and yet that pizza eating ass banging textbook collecting student can earn multiple times more in their lifetime than the bookworm...it's just the way life works. Nothing and I mean nothing guarantees you anything in life...
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But then they get the diploma for doing nothing but slacking off.

90% of grads do this.

What they need to do is actually make College hard and if you slack off you get no diploma.

All this does nothing but dilute the value of a degree.
 
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