Comments on: Is College a Waste of Time? http://www.thearkansasproject.com/is-college-a-waste-of-time/ News and Views on Politics, Policy and More Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill from Sheridan http://www.thearkansasproject.com/is-college-a-waste-of-time/#comment-184 Bill from Sheridan Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:28:10 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=653#comment-184 College is a waste of time for most people, including many of those who actually graduate. Murry is right, we need to establish independent licensing authorities that credential young people to work in various fields. CPA’s, Engineers, computer programmers, and many health care professionals have no need for a liberal arts education. All of those skills could be learned within 2-4 of graduation from High School. We ought to have trade schools to teach those professions. We are needlessly sending students deep into debt trying to give them an education they don’t want. We also ought to have high school courses for students that are not college bound. This country and our students would be much better served if our non-college bound students received vocational training before they left high school. How much better off would non-college bound students be if they graduated from high school with a certificate saying they were proficient in plumbing, or if they had a commercial drivers license, or if they had the technical skills to work repairing printers or copiers? The educrats that run our schools have foisted a lie onto society. They claim that every student can be a physicist or a bio chemist if only we do enough to educate them. That isn’t true, and, even if it was, most students simply don’t have much of an interest in the arts and sciences. Schools need to start educating the children we have, not the ones we wish we had. College is a waste of time for most people, including many of those who actually graduate. Murry is right, we need to establish independent licensing authorities that credential young people to work in various fields. CPA’s, Engineers, computer programmers, and many health care professionals have no need for a liberal arts education. All of those skills could be learned within 2-4 of graduation from High School. We ought to have trade schools to teach those professions. We are needlessly sending students deep into debt trying to give them an education they don’t want.

We also ought to have high school courses for students that are not college bound. This country and our students would be much better served if our non-college bound students received vocational training before they left high school. How much better off would non-college bound students be if they graduated from high school with a certificate saying they were proficient in plumbing, or if they had a commercial drivers license, or if they had the technical skills to work repairing printers or copiers?

The educrats that run our schools have foisted a lie onto society. They claim that every student can be a physicist or a bio chemist if only we do enough to educate them. That isn’t true, and, even if it was, most students simply don’t have much of an interest in the arts and sciences. Schools need to start educating the children we have, not the ones we wish we had.

]]> By: AKA Bryce http://www.thearkansasproject.com/is-college-a-waste-of-time/#comment-183 AKA Bryce Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:49:24 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=653#comment-183 Best time of my life. Worth every penny....that I borrowed from the goverment and now have to pay back. Best time of my life. Worth every penny….that I borrowed from the goverment and now have to pay back.

]]> By: Rob http://www.thearkansasproject.com/is-college-a-waste-of-time/#comment-182 Rob Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:09:28 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=653#comment-182 There is no lack of competition in higher education so you can get what you want. Not so with the government monoply of k-12. Fuzzy math and whole language instead of instruction by rote and phonics has had a lasting negative effect. If a student can't read or add and multiply, then the world of opportunity is closed. There is no lack of competition in higher education so you can get what you want. Not so with the government monoply of k-12. Fuzzy math and whole language instead of instruction by rote and phonics has had a lasting negative effect. If a student can’t read or add and multiply, then the world of opportunity is closed.

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