Ask my wife. Even before she was pregnant, I used to say that I was not in support of our future kids going to college as a default out of high school. With Beckett-to-be on the way, I'm still not a big fan of "but you gotta go to college to be worth something".
Reading this in Assorted Stuff tonight, I feel even more vinidicated. Never would have thought that Forbes magazine would be my saving grace. Wonder If I should tell Karla?
In a post a few days back, I ranted about whether we should be preparing every high school student for college.
It’s something of a surprise to get some support for that point of view from a source like Forbes. The online version of their magazine also questions the need for four more years of school by offering Five Reasons to Skip College.
1. You’ll be losing four working years.
2. You won’t necessarily earn less money.
3. In fact, you could probably make more money if you invested your tuition.
4. You don’t need to be in a classroom in order to learn something.
5. Plenty of other people did fine.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with going, or not, to college/uni, but these reasons seem to assume that the future will be the same as the past. Which a lot of people are arguing it won't be given a number of significant global changes.
Posted by: Nick Noakes | May 01, 2006 at 01:40 AM