Do you think college is a scam? Just to note, this isn't negativity towards an individual person wanting to pursue college in the right way, it's very commendable that a person has the mindset to better themselves.
I tend to believe for our society as a whole, college is mostly useless and just gets people wasting money and precious years rather being able to develop real life skills or hands on experience. Though my question is not about a degree being important with getting your foot inside the door, as it did for me, but I carried my personality and "knack" to learn computer systems at my first job.
I've been thinking of this the past couple of years that a piece of paper certifying you of what you did just really isn't worth it to society anymore. I believe that we could get our most useful skills for ourselves and a career through 18 to 20 years of age.
College's goal isn't to teach you creative skills, but just things that everyone already knows. Of course this sounds useful, but it is our own selves and creativity that propels our society further. I only believe that a small percentage of people need college to refine a doctorate level of skills. In a way, college is a status symbol, just like needing that soccer of a mom Escalade or (silly cill surburban
).
With a buckling economy, rising cost of everything especially college fees makes for a bad outcome. Also when automation is going to soar, we won't need all this useless college degrees that people run around with. Remember, college is a for profit business, they offer you a product with no money back. You could argue by the saying that your knowledge is the greatest possession as no one can take it. Though if we are talking in a figurative sense, then yes, people are taking your knowledge every day as you drone yourself through your boring repetitive job.
I leave you with this, suck it class 2014 (and most of the rest), welcome out of your institution and into the real world. They should start making half way houses for college graduates, they are more likely going to need them.
I tend to believe for our society as a whole, college is mostly useless and just gets people wasting money and precious years rather being able to develop real life skills or hands on experience. Though my question is not about a degree being important with getting your foot inside the door, as it did for me, but I carried my personality and "knack" to learn computer systems at my first job.
I've been thinking of this the past couple of years that a piece of paper certifying you of what you did just really isn't worth it to society anymore. I believe that we could get our most useful skills for ourselves and a career through 18 to 20 years of age.
College's goal isn't to teach you creative skills, but just things that everyone already knows. Of course this sounds useful, but it is our own selves and creativity that propels our society further. I only believe that a small percentage of people need college to refine a doctorate level of skills. In a way, college is a status symbol, just like needing that soccer of a mom Escalade or (silly cill surburban
).With a buckling economy, rising cost of everything especially college fees makes for a bad outcome. Also when automation is going to soar, we won't need all this useless college degrees that people run around with. Remember, college is a for profit business, they offer you a product with no money back. You could argue by the saying that your knowledge is the greatest possession as no one can take it. Though if we are talking in a figurative sense, then yes, people are taking your knowledge every day as you drone yourself through your boring repetitive job.
I leave you with this, suck it class 2014 (and most of the rest), welcome out of your institution and into the real world. They should start making half way houses for college graduates, they are more likely going to need them.
