Posted by Bret4207 on September 04, 2017 at 05:54:48 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: Value of an ag degree posted by NY 986 on September 03, 2017 at 08:07:11:
I will give my opinion, take it for what it's worth. I did not go to college, I went in the USMC. I knew at the time I graduated HS, 1978, that I had no interest in more school. I hated it. I also knew that most of the kids going to college were going so they could get away from home and party and engage in personal relationships, if you get my drift, that they were denied at home where Mom and Dad actually cared what they were doing. Even in those days they were pushing college as a "must". It wasn't. I did better than almost any else in my HS class. I saw the same "I'm going to the local community college" bums sitting on a bar stool when I got out of the Corps that were sitting there when I enlisted, and most of them were still sitting there 3 years later when I started my career as a cop. They might still be sitting there if the place hadn't burned tot he ground! My wife did go to college, paid her own way or she and I paid the loan bill and worked too. Later she returned for her Masters, while working, taking care of a family and her aged parents and having a husband who was gone some place across the state half the time, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Every day she went to school she came home with the latest story of the poor little snowflake (we didn't have that term at the time) whining about the work load or not getting enough sleep. Boo freakin' hoo!
My point is that college isn't for everyone. For many it's just a rite of passage that Dad is supposed to pay for. No one works there way through college anymore, those days are gone. I'd lots rather see a kid that doesn't REALLY know what he wants to do go out and get a job or do 4 years in the military than go spend 4 years doing his best to stay drunk/stoned and do the bare minimum to stay in school. Yeah, the precious few that KNOW they want to be a _________ should go, but most kids have zero idea what they really want to do. That degree in Criminal Justice isn't going to do squat for the stoner that's got 7 pot arrests and a CPCS 7th conviction and neither will that degree in Les bian Art Studies for the girl that thinks there are thousands of high paying jobs in horrible art galleries across the nation. Better they go to a tech school for a year or 2 and learn a trade they can fall back on.
As far as I can see the higher ed industry had done a real good job selling the idea that going to college is a MUST, and I think thats a crime.
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