For the past few years I’ve been watching what is going on at Universities with a bit of bewilderment. Costs have skyrocketed while the actual delivered product has not improved. Based on things like political correctness, focus away from education (the whole ‘college experience’ thing), and a crap job market; I would argue the product has gone down in quality. So reading something like this “The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s” has me laughing my ass off.
Let me get this straight mom and dad: You paid how much for Skippy to go off for 4 years to earn a degree in what? And what is Skippy doing now? The basement you say? How do you feel about your investment now? Why did you let him spend that gold on a degree in History? Did you think he was going to get a real job with it? Why not just go straight out and get a degree in education? You know that is the only actual avenue of employment for him? Well, that or Starbucks. And Starbucks doesn’t really like History majors, they’d prefer somebody from Devry who can actually learn to operate the espresso maker in under a day.
I have already told my girls what I’ll pay for: science, math, engineering, business or a technical area. Anything that has a real job at the other end. I’d prefer the first three because the other stuff can be picked up along the way. If they want to take the gender studies, political science, history (as a major) or other crap they can pay for it on their own dime. I see those areas as no different than me taking motorcycle racing classes or sniper training – fun entertainment, but not serious investments. Actually, I can argue that the military type training can actually be turned in to a job for a lot less than a humanities degree and the Motorcycle stuff….If the zombies come and I run out of ammo at least I can get away.
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