American Higher Education

gouf78
Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:14:11 +0000

Lots of good questions!
Best system in the world? Probably. We’re pretty spoiled actually in that Americans hope to provide access to higher education to everyone. We may fall short of that but can’t fail us for trying. There are lots of opportunity. Another question though is should we be trying to provide higher education for everyone? Or would it be better to provide more job opportunities that are outside the “college educated” realm?

Student loan debt? I’d send everyone a calculator and a real world mirror. See the “magical thinking” thread. Some of it is compounded by competition for certain professions. The more people who want to be an “X”, the more years of schooling it seems to take–sometimes out of proportion to the actual job performed after graduation. They just keep adding more hoops to jump through.

The goal of a society is to have productive and educated members. That does not mean everyone needs a college education to be productive or successful in life.