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Originally Posted by Orgazmo
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Stupid people are still encouraged to go to college despite it being not in their best interest.
hundreds of thousands of people graduate in the bottom 40 percent of their classes and then go on to 4-year colleges. 2/3 of those people do not earn diplomas 8 years later and instead have large amounts of college loan debt
Colleges like to show statistics that those who graduate college earn more than those who don't. There are hidden correlations that these statistics do not show. interesting alternative possibility: You could lock those that graduate college in a closet for four year and they would likely make more money than those that do not think about going to college in the first place. People who earn college degrees tend to be brighter, more motivated, and have better family connections.
This article supports my thinking that our society puts a little too much emphasis on college education. Many people go on to jobs that require little of what they learned in college, and end up having to spend time training afterwards anyways. I look around and see lots of douch bags that aren't getting any more intelligent with their college education and are just wasting their money because they believed they had no other options after high school. Why not just improve high school education? and save "college" for training specific knowledge and skills instead of having to pay for rediculously expensive credit hours such as my foreign language requirement that I have no interest in learning or using in the future just so I can get the degree that I want?
"remember, it's always better to have a cursory knowledge of a lot of things than to actually know a lot about any one thing. This is called a liberal arts education." -Steve Carell joking on ways to be brilliant
confession: i didn't read the entire article myself