You know consider me among the group that believed in the value of a college education and only incurred student loan debt. Unless you have a plan once you get your degree it's not worth it. In my case it was an expectation within my family based upon my grades in high school - they were a fluke when you think about it - and they just expected me to have college in my plans.
Either way this is what the National Review says:
All the same, there was no idea on my part about blue-collar work. If I had a basis in that - learning some skill that upon graduating from high school I could've gotten a job with it. Doesn't matter could be welding, woodwork, electrician, etc. Also one mistake I made during my high school years was that I never took a course in business skills such as accounting or bookkeeping. Either way we get these kids set on college, but didn't have a basis to truly get them ready for the real world.
It also didn't help that at least the young people who graduated with me from high school - GO FALCONS - didn't exactly come from families that could afford to send them to school. My thing is for my experience I just wasn't ready for not only community college, I wasn't ready for Morehouse either.
Instapundit doesn't really need a hat-tip however I seem to be old school when it comes to crediting other blogs that provide good links for me to use.
Either way this is what the National Review says:
And then reality started to catch up on that conventional wisdom. Americans started doubting that college was such a great investment as they saw lots of people with degrees doing low-skill work and realized that the high cost of college could exceed the benefits by a wide margin. The upward march of college enrollments leveled off and began to decline. Since 2011, they’re down 9 percent.Fewer international students are coming here to get their degrees? What's going on are they sensing no value in coming to school here?
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Shaw contends that some of the decline is due to a culture shift, as some Americans swing back toward older attitudes about work, no longer disdaining blue-collar jobs as so many had. Also, fewer international students are coming to the U.S.
All the same, there was no idea on my part about blue-collar work. If I had a basis in that - learning some skill that upon graduating from high school I could've gotten a job with it. Doesn't matter could be welding, woodwork, electrician, etc. Also one mistake I made during my high school years was that I never took a course in business skills such as accounting or bookkeeping. Either way we get these kids set on college, but didn't have a basis to truly get them ready for the real world.
It also didn't help that at least the young people who graduated with me from high school - GO FALCONS - didn't exactly come from families that could afford to send them to school. My thing is for my experience I just wasn't ready for not only community college, I wasn't ready for Morehouse either.
Instapundit doesn't really need a hat-tip however I seem to be old school when it comes to crediting other blogs that provide good links for me to use.
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