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A good education is priceless. It's sad that apparently many people are dissatisfied with their college experiences, but I've always felt that if you went to a

A good education is priceless. It's sad that apparently many people are dissatisfied with their college experiences, but I've always felt that if you went to a good school and feel that all you got out of it was debt and a diploma, maybe you are the problem.

untilHellbanned 11y ago
what part did the university contribute that was priceless?
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago
  More: What part of what the university contributed was education? What part of what the university contributed was education that you could not have otherwise obtained? And the real problem: What part of the education, that you got from somewhere other than the university, could you prove to a potential employer that you actually had received?
quanticle 11y ago
A good education may be priceless, but the cost of a four year college degree, in monetary terms alone (let alone time) has exceeded that of a house in many parts of the United States. That's a huge opportunity cost, and I see no problem in asking whether the theoretically increased earning potential of a college degree outweighs that sacrifice.
pmiller2 11y ago
I got a good education to go with my debt and diploma. What I'm not particularly satisfied with is what kind of income the education and the diploma have given me relative to the debt.
kajecounterhack 11y ago
Maybe not. This outlook feels a bit blinded by privilege. If you're lower middle class and didn't get great scholarships, you have to choose between taking out a lot of debt or going to college and working to keep yourself in it. When you get out, if your grades were lower because you spent time working / it affected your grades, this may affect your chances at a job. Similarly, if you're poor and your high school education didn't prepare you as well as rich kids for college, this can happen. And if you were mislead in re market opportunities (this happens more than you might imagine), you may have chosen a field that happens to be not-very-lucrative / not many jobs are available. Again, this is more likely to happen to disadvantaged / underprivileged kids regardless of how hard working or smart they might be. Now you're in the real world, you have a hard time getting a job, and even though you learned a lot it doesn't feel appreciated or wanted by the market. So you feel that all you got was debt and a diploma, but not necessarily because you didn't take advantage of learning or growing as a person. And now you have no way to pay it off, so you feel trapped and hustled.

untilHellbanned 11y ago

what part did the university contribute that was priceless?

AnimalMuppet 11y ago
More: What part of what the university contributed was education? What part of what the university contributed was education that you could not have otherwise obtained? And the real problem: What part of the education, that you got from somewhere other than the university, could you prove to a potential employer that you actually had received?

quanticle 11y ago

A good education may be priceless, but the cost of a four year college degree, in monetary terms alone (let alone time) has exceeded that of a house in many parts of the United States. That's a huge opportunity cost, and I see no problem in asking whether the theoretically increased earning potential of a college degree outweighs that sacrifice.

pmiller2 11y ago

I got a good education to go with my debt and diploma. What I'm not particularly satisfied with is what kind of income the education and the diploma have given me relative to the debt.

kajecounterhack 11y ago

Maybe not. This outlook feels a bit blinded by privilege. If you're lower middle class and didn't get great scholarships, you have to choose between taking out a lot of debt or going to college and working to keep yourself in it. When you get out, if your grades were lower because you spent time working / it affected your grades, this may affect your chances at a job. Similarly, if you're poor and your high school education didn't prepare you as well as rich kids for college, this can happen. And if you were mislead in re market opportunities (this happens more than you might imagine), you may have chosen a field that happens to be not-very-lucrative / not many jobs are available. Again, this is more likely to happen to disadvantaged / underprivileged kids regardless of how hard working or smart they might be. Now you're in the real world, you have a hard time getting a job, and even though you learned a lot it doesn't feel appreciated or wanted by the market. So you feel that all you got was debt and a diploma, but not necessarily because you didn't take advantage of learning or growing as a person. And now you have no way to pay it off, so you feel trapped and hustled.