You’ll delay your opportunity to earn income.Indiviglio, Atlantic: “The value of a degree has become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy: it's become worth so much because people assume it should be.” And any college or university that is now licensing the sustainability zealots to indoctrinate students in the residence halls or the classrooms is making a doubtful guess about its future. The next phase may be a harsher judgment on the institutions that fail to heed the warning. This phase of the student loan crisis is a collective declaration by the markets that a college education in its prevailing form is overvalued and overpriced. We are, in other words, spending too much on too little. much of college education today is merely a bestowal of politically correct jargon and therapy – is this worth thousands of tuition dollars?). Even the few students who don’t incur a lot of debt usually pay too much for too little (i.e.That adds to the nation's debt problems.” Jacques Steinberg, reporter, NYT: “Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.”ĭaniel Indiviglio, blogger, Atlantic: “By plowing more money into an education, many students incur incredible amounts of debt before they ever get their first paycheck, or maybe their parents spend savings that would have helped their retirement. If you don’t finish, it’ll be a waste of time.The latter group have been passed forward through a school system that has failed to realistically assess their abilities. They lack essential academic skills and either do not have the necessary desire to acquire them in college or lack the mental ability. You are correct in that many of them are ill prepared for college. I have been teaching here for 38 years and it’s been clear to me for all that time that some (not most) students do not belong in college. I am a college professor at a good quality satellite campus of State University. Leonhardt, Economix blog, NYT: “a significant number of high school graduates are ill-prepared for college, and it doesn’t make sense for them to enroll (unless they are going to receive intensive remedial work as part of the equation - which most will not).” Your high school may not have adequately prepared you for college-level academics.A large proportion of people who are theoretically able to absorb a liberal education have no interest in doing so. She uses college to take vocational courses that pertain to her career interests.
Try to force her (for example, by setting up a demanding core curriculum), and she will transfer to another school, because she is in college for vocational training. But she probably won’t, and there’s no way to force her. Should all of those who have the academic ability to absorb a college-level liberal education get one? If our young woman is at the 80 th percentile of linguistic ability, should she be pushed to do so? She has enough intellectual capacity, if she puts her mind to it and works exceptionally hard What follows are highlights of some of the arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone.Ĭharles Murray, Real Education, page 17: “All of us have known since our earliest memories of elementary school that abilities are real and that they vary.” There has recently been a small swell of published doubts about whether college is really for everyone and, if not, why not? Some of these have appeared on our own website, but venues like the New York Times and the Atlantic have also been giving them notice. “One of the most damaging messages of educational romanticism has been that everyone should go to college.” – Charles Murray
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