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Where I'm from, a 4 year stint in higher education is about as expensive as a month's wages. It gets more expensive if you need student housing, but many studen
by elric 2y ago
Where I'm from, a 4 year stint in higher education is about as expensive as a month's wages. It gets more expensive if you need student housing, but many students can and do commute.
Most young folks can study something that interests them, at little risk. No one here has to worry about the ROI of their offspring's studies, nor do they have to worry about their prepubescent child starting charities (or whatever other insane nonsense) in order to qualify for some insanely expensive elitist college.
Seems like a much more sensible approach than putting a fuckton of pressure on kids in order to get them in a college which will land them with 30 years of debt on top of a potential degree.
Let kids be kids, and give students a chance to learn and explore.
- kredd 2y agoI completely agree! I should've worded my comment a bit better - "should I pay $40k/year for a school that won't open up doors for me in the future?" was the question that I was trying to answer back in the days. If it's cheap, or you can go without going into debt, obviously the calculations would be different.
- rr808 2y agoI agree with this attitude as it was in the country I grew up in. However in the US often internships are the path to graduate jobs which is a much easier way into the highest paying jobs. The other thing is time, sure you can try something out for 4 years but doing too much education means you'll never get to settle down until your 30s at the earliest.