Watching Obama right now. Just said something to the extent of "Everyone needs to go to college."
Do you feel that having a college degree TODAY is what having just a high school diploma was maybe 40 years ago?
I have four or five BA/BS level degrees, a Master's degree and a JD. There are days honestly where I still don't feel educated enough. But at the same time, does everyone need to go to college? And if everyone goes, should we be all that surprised that college costs go up? More people means needing more services, more services means needing more money to provide them.
I thought about putting this in the politics forum, but I think this is bigger than politics.
Has the economic downturn cheapened the value of a degree? Or have universities, which now seem to be more like diploma mills, cheapened it for us? Mind you my first couple of degrees, Political Science and Philosophy, were useless degrees. But the Army also told me that, and insisted I got something with some use. So I ended up with degrees in Arab studies and in Computer Science. Those served and have continue to serve me well. But if I was in a traditional educational system, I wonder if I would have gotten anything more than the PS/Phil degrees...
Do you feel that having a college degree TODAY is what having just a high school diploma was maybe 40 years ago?
I have four or five BA/BS level degrees, a Master's degree and a JD. There are days honestly where I still don't feel educated enough. But at the same time, does everyone need to go to college? And if everyone goes, should we be all that surprised that college costs go up? More people means needing more services, more services means needing more money to provide them.
I thought about putting this in the politics forum, but I think this is bigger than politics.
Has the economic downturn cheapened the value of a degree? Or have universities, which now seem to be more like diploma mills, cheapened it for us? Mind you my first couple of degrees, Political Science and Philosophy, were useless degrees. But the Army also told me that, and insisted I got something with some use. So I ended up with degrees in Arab studies and in Computer Science. Those served and have continue to serve me well. But if I was in a traditional educational system, I wonder if I would have gotten anything more than the PS/Phil degrees...