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In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
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I have to disagree with them.
As I've been saying, college is not for the undecided or the indecisive. If you do not have a clear and cut career goal in mind and you still go through college, you will find yourself in a world of debt and financial hurt. All for nothing. All for a degree that means nothing because it sounded cool to you.
Do you really need an arts degree? Do you really need a liberal arts degree? Do you really need a philosophy degree?
No to all, that's just examples.
It’s going to be a fun world without arts and philosophy…
And bravo to 18yo kids that have all that planned. Not sur life is set on rails and all for most of us. Sure didn’t feel that way for me. Or about everyone around me.
Oh please...you act like everything art-related is strictly funneled through a college system when there's thousands of artists out there who practice art.
And philosophy is about as good as just trying to prove someone wrong in a fruitless argument on the internet.
Who're you trying to fool?
Comparing a rigorous Philosophy degree to an internet argument is something said only by the uneducated.
Philosophy is the spearhead of science, most scientific breakthroughs begin first with philosophy.
The sad thing is that college is and has been viewed for at least my entire life as just a more elaborate version of a vo-tech school.
Which I kind of understand - I didn't want to come out of uni with no path forward either, so I went for CS. Believe me, I understand the game.
However - it's a real shame that we don't treat K-12 or university as something to really broaden the mind, but only as a way to sort the population into various ways to earn money. Essentially ONLY used as a job training program.
Instead of treating education as something that should be about getting a liberal education in every sense of that word with the aim of making as many people as possible autodidacts so they could not only think for themselves, but they could teach themselves nearly anything they care to learn, K-12 + higher education is expected to be about prep for a job. This kind of education essentially makes "do your own research" little more than a punchline aimed at morons who are doing no such thing.