College

[oneshot]

If the Government pays for everyone’s College Education doesn’t that take away from it?

I know with my College I got a Grant but actually Trade School did more for me.

My Son and Daughter in Law got theirs paid with Grants. My Daughter got hers paid for out of pocket.

My wife got her paid by companies leaving the country.

Won’t really matter if there isn’t any Jobs.

oneshot

[Dutch]

37 minutes ago, oneshot said:

If the Government pays for everyone’s College Education doesn’t that take away from it?

oneshot

What would it take away from it besides debt?  

[Mitch f]

Horrible idea 

[Jerry Rapp]

let me fix it for you oneshot.  "If OUR TAXES pays for everyone’s College Education"   The government never pays for anything.  Nothing is free.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

Myself, my wife and 3 kids have all paid our own way.  People who complain about college debt generally have a worthless degree.  We spent a lot of time as parents making sure our kids knew that.  Do we all get refunds if they start paying for them now??

[oneshot]

14 hours ago, Dutch said:

What would it take away from it besides debt?  

Some borrow just because they can I’m thinking of 3 right now.

One his wife and daughter borrowed the max because they could. So he voted Democrat for this and legal Marijuana.

oneshot

[Terrierman]

I went to college on the GI Bill.  And part time jobs during the school year and full time work in the summer.  I guess that takes away from it.  Haters gonna hate.

[fishinwrench]

Can someone give me an example of something that you can learn in college that you can't learn on your own?  

[Al Agnew]

6 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Can someone give me an example of something that you can learn in college that you can't learn on your own?  

These days, if you want to work at it long enough and hard enough, you certainly CAN learn anything on your own that you can learn in college.  The point of college is the degree.  And the point of the degree is to SHOW that you've learned enough to graduate, and therefore hopefully know enough about your chosen field to qualify for a job in it.  Learning on your own, it's tough for potential employers to judge whether you know anything or not.

The other value to college, though I imagine a lot of people won't agree, is that it broadens your horizons.  For somebody like me, grew up in a small town, never lived anywhere else, seldom even visited anywhere else, parents were the same, never got to know people in other parts of the state, let alone the country, I had a very insular view of the world and the people in it.  College exposed me to a whole lot of different people from different walks of life and different places.  It also exposed me to a lot of different ideas--and NOT so much from the teachers like a lot of people seem to complain about, but from other students with different life experiences.  

Heck, except for a single black girl in my high school, who I don't think I said more than six words to, I'd never actually talked to a black person until I went to college.  My parents had almost never had dealings with black people or any other minority.  Practically everybody in town was the same, and the town as a whole was pretty darned racist.  College changed my whole outlook on minorities...playing pickup basketball with blacks and Hispanics, having classes with them, getting to know them, hanging out for a while with the black guys on the basketball team while I was doing a work-study deal by sweeping the practice gym, which turned out to be more playing horse with the guys that showed up early to shoot around; well, I came back home with the realization that they were all just people, some good, some bad, some smart, some not so smart.

 

[fishinwrench]

30 minutes ago, Al Agnew said:

And the point of the degree is to SHOW that you've learned enough to graduate, and therefore hopefully know enough about your chosen field to qualify for a job in it. 

Depending on your chosen career there's often no need to "get a job".  

Take a trip to Jeff City, apply for a business license and tax number, and Poof..... suddenly you're "employed"......for as long as you don't screw it up.  

I have a bunch of certificates on the wall......For what? I don't know, because they don't mean squat.