Originally posted by moon1969
I read your two big original posts very closely. It seems the emphasis is on basic education (i.e., high school) required by law and maybe technical training.
In contrast, it comes across generally discouraging with regard to higher education or further education, as if such is not really needed in that one can typically provide a living for their famil ...[text shortened]... at is required by the law and by his parents.[/quote]
Not a big emphasis on going to college.
Sir, have you any idea of the number of students who go to university, spend thirty
thousand pounds on getting a degree and end up working in a call centre? The
article states, that is some cases it may be advantageous to pursue further
education, but you are correct i think in your evaluation, our focus has always been
on vocational education, but even here, its entirely up to the individual and their
parents, contrary to the claims of the op and his second hand cut and pastes from
some hate site that he frequents,
Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?
October 20, 2010, 9:53 am
By Richard Vedder
Two sets of information were presented to me in the last 24 hours that have
dramatically reinforced my feeling that diminishing returns have set in to
investments in higher education, with increasing evidence suggesting that we are in
one respect “overinvesting” in the field. First, following up on information provided
by former student Douglas Himes at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), my
sidekick Chris Matgouranis showed me the table reproduced below (And for more
see this).
Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them
have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over
18,000 parking lot attendants. All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college
degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated
with a bachelor’s degree.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634
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