Jul 10, 2017 Colleges do have a negative impact on the country. They're a business who's goal is to put you in debt in every way. They make you take big loans that take forever to pay off with high interest rates. They jack up the prices of books to over $300 and then when you trade them in, sometimes they're not even worth $5. They make you take required courses that have nothing to do with your major...If you're going to be a doctor or lawyer or know exactly what training you need, then yeah, college is a great idea. But if you have no idea what you want to do I wouldn't recommend going, or at least starting out in a community college until you decide.
Jul 10, 2017 Your government could subsidize costs or help with interest free loans and if they thought college was bad for the same reasons you listed thats exactly what they would do. The fact that they don't do this suggests theyre more afraid of an educated public.
Jul 10, 2017 theyre right are you really ok with spending a third of your lifetime reading instead of doing? while also standing in 6 digits of debt? Now every1 is starting to adept VR & AR technology in education for both academies and workplaces, as an attempt to feed fast knowledge so the job requirements wont outpace the employees. This is probably the biggest misstep in education of this millennium so far if it's implemented the way they predict it to. If education would focus on strengthening versatility and adaptiveness, people would be ready to educate themselves instead of reading instructions, even if theyre in a VR environment.
Jul 10, 2017 I think NY actually just passed a law that if you go to school in state at certain schools you get to go for free...kind of jealous tbh
Jul 10, 2017 Uni degrees are 3-4 years how is that one third of your life? I'm personally very grateful fir my university experience
Jul 10, 2017 im including it w all schools because spending a third of your life to become self sufficient is sad no matter how you look at it
Jul 10, 2017 People that take classes that they don't need is totally their fault. All colleges have some form of counseling office that explains to you which classes you need to take. 100% agree about community college. Even if you do know what you want your major to be, you should go to community college first. The first 2-3 years you're usually just taking general education classes anyways and they're A LOT cheaper at community college. I always say if you're unsure, try to get your AA. That way you at least have something and statistics are pretty clear: the higher education you have, the more money people tend to make on average.
Jul 10, 2017 Well you need a certain amount of credits to graduate, so in some instances you have to take BS classes to graduate. Also a lot of people get raises/promotions just because of their degree when they're terrible at their job. On job training is much more beneficial for most corporate jobs over college tbh.
Jul 10, 2017 Yeah... 12 years ago I was forced to listen to Right Wing Talk Radio 12 hours a day and I broke the code... It was a constant mantra of: Don't get a higher education... Don't read newspapers... Don't join a union... Respect rich people and fight for their tax breaks... Be jealous and angry at poor people because their lives are so easy and they are destoying the country and threaten your way of life. It was easy for me to see that Talk Radio and Fox News was just programming people to be losers who were servents that pulled the (R) lever. They changed the meaning of "Liberal" to mean "bad"... Then they applied it to the things that poor people can use to inform themselves and end a cycle of poverty. . "Liberal Universities" "Liberal Union Thugs" "Liberal Newspapers" The NeoCons were in charge of a Republican White House, a Republican majority House, a Republican Majority and a Supreme Court with 7 of 9 Justices appointed by Republican Presidents. One thing you didn't hear at the time was "big government liberals", because Bush43 grew the federal government by 33% (after Clinton cut the size of the federal government). If you were a libertarian who was against the Iraq War, against the PATRIOT ACT, against NSA spying on citizens and didn't believe marijuana bought in America funded Al Qaeda... You were considered a flaming liberal. People like Cindy Sheehan who was some poor old lady who probably had $500 in her bank account who's son died in the Iraq War and she decided to ask why were there instead of blindly following the President was made Public Enemy number 1 by the GOP. Amazing power the CEC has.
Jul 10, 2017 So you must include trades in that. All those silly carpenters/electricians/biolermakers etc who spend the same amount of time in an apprenticeship as I do at university?
Jul 10, 2017 Well obviously if you have the opportunity to get into some form of on job training out of high school, go for it! That's usually not the case though. I think the safest bet if you're unsure is to go to community college and get into some kind of program (EMT, Kinesiology, etc) or get an AA. A lot of occupations that are going to be open in the future are going to require some kind of degree -- especially in the stem fields. That's where the money and jobs are going to be in the future. h---.... even now.
Jul 10, 2017 no i approve of apprenticeships over schools. i spent a year of work to enter a field most study 3+ years for. there's a big divide between the companies and the academics, and neither seem to give a s--- about eachother.
Jul 10, 2017 A 4 year apprenticeship on top of school is still "spending a third of your life to become self sufficient"