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[covalesky]

Let's face it. Going to college just puts people in more debt than they should be in and it doesn't ensure a good job like it use too. Does the way we pursue education have to change? The way companies higher employees? Should we go back to an apprenticeship with out having to focus on classes that most will never need nor use?

Over there perhaps, but here its not that expensive. I worked through mine, of course I had to tighten the belt a bit, well a lot, but here I am.

As for not ensuring a job, nowadays its the opposite, if you don't have a Bachelors or higher you're fucked for many professions.

[Cat-Scratch]

Normally, I try not to be a grammar nazi, but in this context, it's too funny not to say.

Higher education at least teaches us the difference between "higher" and "hire".

Hires Root Beer.

You made me think of it.

[Lord Simian]

I was posting from a phone! Give me a break.

Ah, say no more. My phone's autocorrect is usually out solely to fuck me over, so I understand completely!

[Alchemic_Spider]

Ah, say no more. My phone's autocorrect is usually out solely to duck me over, so I understand completely!

/auto correct'd

[Lord Simian]

/auto correct'd

No, it's usually more insidious than that. Like the first week I had the new phone, and I sent a text to my boss jokingly blowing off something she said. So, I typed "Pfft!"

However, the son of a bitch phone, deciding that wasn't good enough to screw me over, actually sent "Orgy!"

[nietoperz]

No, it's usually more insidious than that. Like the first week I had the new phone, and I sent a text to my boss jokingly blowing off something she said. So, I typed "Pfft!"

However, the son of a bitch phone, deciding that wasn't good enough to screw me over, actually sent "Orgy!"

That's your story and you're sticking to it, huh?

[Lord Simian]

That's your story and you're sticking to it, huh?

That's the same thing the company "sensitivity trainer" said.

[eltopo]

Yes. It's ridiculous that a lot of companies (not all but a lot) place more value on college degrees then on real world experience.

I agree

[MrBlack]

College can be useful for narrowing down what you are interested in, but that's accomplished in the first two years. You can accomplish the same thing by getting an associates degree at a community college, followed by 1-2 year trade schools. There should still be a place for traditional colleges, but we need to do away with the myth that everyone should get a 4-year degree.

[Potter Who]

I think higher education is a very good thing, but there should be more emphasis on technical or vocational schools as a viable option. Like there is in other countries. Higher ed should for adults to figure out their career path AND make steps towards achieving it. Right now, at many schools for many students, it's just high school version 2.0.

[CountD]

College can be useful for narrowing down what you are interested in, but that's accomplished in the first two years. You can accomplish the same thing by getting an associates degree at a community college, followed by 1-2 year trade schools. There should still be a place for traditional colleges, but we need to do away with the myth that everyone should get a 4-year degree.

Job Corps?

[AaronW]

Since business leaders in America love sending decent paying manufacturing and other labor jobs overseas isn't a college education mandatory since you are going to have to have some form of trained skills to land a job that isn't a service industry job? I was reading an article the other day saying a bachelors is almost like a high school diploma these days and people who want work better get that masters.

[Lord Simian]

I was reading an article the other day saying a bachelors is almost like a high school diploma these days and people who want work better get that masters.

The Lord of the Monkeys' wife is a social worker, and I can tell you for a fact you are absolutely correct, at least as far as that field goes.

[False Prophet]

People should also stop picking crappy majors where the four-year completion of it amounts to no more than a half-year's worth of field work.

[PDH]

People are not smart enough to understand the importance of higher education and the best way to deal with it until it's over and by then it's like, 'oh fuck, I'm a humanities graduate.'