From what I am seeing recently on television about activities on college campuses, no intelligent person should walk the quad or enter any building. Young people are running around yelling at each other for having a differing opinion. Administrators are announcing what is acceptable speech and telling students how to initiate sex. And we let our children, who don't have the lifetime experience we have, attend such places of so called higher learning?
What do you get with a 4 year degree anyway? A lot of rejection and advice that a Master's degree should be next on your list.
A lot of courses don't even provide necessary skills training to be successful in the workplace. I don't want to expend the energy mentioning these unworthy courses. Just google "useless college courses," and be ready to fall off your chair. These are credit courses. Really.
Colleges are a fantasy world all their own. Folks in the late 30s and early 40s will tell you they are still struggling with school loan debt along with the regular expenses of life. That means these institutions of higher learning are out of sync with the real economy. The towns where they are located in are dying all around them and the administrators don't take notice. But the Stafford Loans are riding in on galloping mustangs ready to suck an unsuspecting student into financial ruin.
A lot of young people will admit that they learned more about the real world at their first jobs. They learned management skills, how to talk to customers, and how to follow organized systems. I bet you know kids who had to return to their first jobs to make ends meet while searching for a position related to their degree.
And speaking of degrees, google "the most useless college degrees," and see which groups have lousy employment rates. My advice if you are in college: take these as minors and pick a major degree in something you can immediately use upon graduation. In fact, if these awful degrees are truly interesting to you, pursue them as hobbies in your spare time. You will still find pleasure in them.
Since I have been out of college (the first college stint) 29 years ago I realize I was my own best teacher. Experience sticks in your brain for life and it is free. If you concentrate on good reading, writing, and math skills in your teenage years, you can teach yourself anything. And, there is nothing that doesn't top excellent communication skills to get you through important doors.
The biggest disappointment with college for me is the lack of entrepreneurial encouragement. I was taught how to build a fancy resume and get a job. A job is nice, but not a place where people should stay. As much as business experts talk about anointing the worker as a creative and appreciated participant in a business or organization, the worker is usually treated with disdain as someone who can't be trusted and must be constantly supervised like an inmate in a prison yard. Often there is a whole lot of back stabbing and not much promoting up the career ladder.
No one taught me how to make positive change in the world. It must come from within. We were taught how to blend in with the world and be followers. All at a hefty price tag thanks to unrealistic college requirements.
It seems college instruction is like force feeding a baby nasty mashed up spinach, because students are fresh out of high school and vulnerable to this kind of financial exploitation.
Your own drive matters more than anything, I suggest people work a year or two before college and start their own businesses. Then, they can go to college with a better mind-set where they will have more of a say in how their tuition dollars are spent.
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