Caulfield won’t need too much financing, I would hope. But of course that depends on how many more celebrities stuff their YouTube star children into college via “creative accreditation”!
There’s always India. College is WAY cheaper over there, and in fact even a scientific or financial or business education is affordable and worth something if you know the right places to look.
Too bad he is not danish; – we pay colleges and universities though our taxes. That way, anybody can study if they have the grades for it, without bankrupting their parents… and rich people can’t bribe their way into an education.
Not everyone is college material!!! We’ve gone way past “too far” with this obsession of everybody has to have a college degree!!! The world will always need people who are willing to get their hands dirty and, yes, maybe have a few scars. Or else we will have no world; everything that gives you your white-collar-college-educated-status was manufactured by a blue-collar worker. And some blue-collar workers have more education than you obviously think. Even the aforementioned welding is an educated job, you must be trained, go thru an apprenticeship and practice, practice, practice.
The average college graduate pays about $5800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $172,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $42,000 a year to attend school.
This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes. And, the person who takes the job he would have been doing without the education is contributing to society instead of being unemployed.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free, as long as the student is making decent grades, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.
I’m always perplexed that people who fully understand and appreciate the value to society of free, universal education for our citizens from pre-kindergarten thru Grade 12 somehow or other think that the best way to proceed from there in the modern Age of Information is to require almost everyone to heap up gargantuan mounds of personal debt in order to get thru post-secondary education in anything like a timely fashion.
As Emil Faber (founder of the legendary Faber College) remarked, “Knowledge is good!”
One of the greatest gifts anyone could give anyone is the gift my wife’s parents gave her: She graduated from university with no student debt. I once caught myself wondering if I gave my parents and myself a similar gift by dropping out, but the fact is, it was a decision somewhere on the scale between highly questionable and remarkably stupid. It worked out. But I don’t want to give myself too much credit for, sure, a lot of hard work but a whole lot more good luck. Honestly, who would do that?
Recent events have highlighted some serious flaws the college and university system has long embraced; its shameless marketing of the diploma as ticket to success and its shift in some corners from social and economic equalizer toward further stratifier. But these flaws are minor compared to the good an education can do. And since these flaws are, in fact, enormous, appalling and legion, that says quite something about the upside.
danketaz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Of course, if you can convince the lad to ace his SAT’s…
whahoppened almost 6 years ago
R.O.I. numbers are better with a trade school.
Nachikethass almost 6 years ago
Caulfield won’t need too much financing, I would hope. But of course that depends on how many more celebrities stuff their YouTube star children into college via “creative accreditation”!
Michael Thorton almost 6 years ago
There’s always India. College is WAY cheaper over there, and in fact even a scientific or financial or business education is affordable and worth something if you know the right places to look.
Delhi’s got a lot of the good places.
Sisterdame almost 6 years ago
Too bad he is not danish; – we pay colleges and universities though our taxes. That way, anybody can study if they have the grades for it, without bankrupting their parents… and rich people can’t bribe their way into an education.
asrialfeeple almost 6 years ago
Not even a patent for practical cold fusion?
LadyPeterW almost 6 years ago
Not everyone is college material!!! We’ve gone way past “too far” with this obsession of everybody has to have a college degree!!! The world will always need people who are willing to get their hands dirty and, yes, maybe have a few scars. Or else we will have no world; everything that gives you your white-collar-college-educated-status was manufactured by a blue-collar worker. And some blue-collar workers have more education than you obviously think. Even the aforementioned welding is an educated job, you must be trained, go thru an apprenticeship and practice, practice, practice.
sappha58 almost 6 years ago
Get an engineering degree, then specialize to get your Masters.
comicboyz almost 6 years ago
not if he is instate in Michigan with an income below 100K
Teto85 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
It is cheaper to send our girls to Oxford than the local state university.
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 6 years ago
This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes. And, the person who takes the job he would have been doing without the education is contributing to society instead of being unemployed.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free, as long as the student is making decent grades, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.
Bruce1253 almost 6 years ago
I went back to get an MBA in my mid 50’s. I will be dead before I pay that loan off.
Rose Madder Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Try earning a scholarship. and go to a state school, not some expensive private college.
Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I’m always perplexed that people who fully understand and appreciate the value to society of free, universal education for our citizens from pre-kindergarten thru Grade 12 somehow or other think that the best way to proceed from there in the modern Age of Information is to require almost everyone to heap up gargantuan mounds of personal debt in order to get thru post-secondary education in anything like a timely fashion.
As Emil Faber (founder of the legendary Faber College) remarked, “Knowledge is good!”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
PostsFrazz18 hrs ·
One of the greatest gifts anyone could give anyone is the gift my wife’s parents gave her: She graduated from university with no student debt. I once caught myself wondering if I gave my parents and myself a similar gift by dropping out, but the fact is, it was a decision somewhere on the scale between highly questionable and remarkably stupid. It worked out. But I don’t want to give myself too much credit for, sure, a lot of hard work but a whole lot more good luck. Honestly, who would do that?
Recent events have highlighted some serious flaws the college and university system has long embraced; its shameless marketing of the diploma as ticket to success and its shift in some corners from social and economic equalizer toward further stratifier. But these flaws are minor compared to the good an education can do. And since these flaws are, in fact, enormous, appalling and legion, that says quite something about the upside.