"We Send Too Many Students to College"
is the title of this great article by Marty Nemko, a career coach. The statistics just goes to reinforce my beliefs (and biases).
posted by MP at 11:51 AM
Our Unschooling Adventure - which officially started in Lowell in the Fall of 2005 - now continues in Berlin.
is the title of this great article by Marty Nemko, a career coach. The statistics just goes to reinforce my beliefs (and biases).
posted by MP at 11:51 AM
3 Comments:
I do wish that we had more focus on vocational education in the US, but it has become somewhat of a pejorative term, I fear.
Interestingly, we just hit an anniversary of the GI Bill, which is the means by which a huge number of american servicemen fresh back from WWII got a chance to go to college. This was a big change from pre-WWII, where the title "college boy" was a pejorative term used by the blue-collar "real workers" of America. (I guess I like the word pejorative today). After that time, it became more the default to go to college instead of the realm of the upper class and very bright.
However, I'm not sure I want to go to the German system. As unschoolers I have a feeling you wouldn't be fond of that either.
4:14 PM
Whoops, sorry. That last post is by johndunk...
4:15 PM
Thanks for the comment John. I think the higher-education industry has become a victim of its own success. As college education made you more and more money, the prices kept increasing and the ROI kept decreasing for students. Now they have reached a tipping point, IMO, past which the colleges will not be able to increase their tuitions. There are plenty of perverse incentives in the higher-education system which keep the system going.
I personally am all for vocational education. It makes the most financial sense.
10:07 PM
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