Lady Day said:Wow, is this really becoming a conversation of higher education verses not?
Come one people.
I am a devout believer in higher education because I come from a family where that was often deprived from them. It was a higher lifestyle in my family and my brother and I always heard, "when you get out of college" as a preface to just about anything we wanted to do in life.
My mother was one of the first in out family to get a degree, and later a masters in special education. That didn't make her any less hands on as say someone who didn't have a diploma, but there was a foundation there, a structured and by the numbers foundation. I feel thats what you get from higher education.
Not saying that there are not a lot of immediate kin who didn't go to college and are doing well owning their own home or business or what have you. I still talk with them and some regret not going/ being able to go, if for no other reason that discovering a new dynamic about themselves.
LD
Agreed. Any kid of mine will be told in no uncertain terms that I expect them to attend college and study something rigorous, if not necessarily applicable to a job.
If, after that, they decide they want to become a carpenter or whatever, so be it.
If, of course they are just not cut out for academic achievement, can't get in, or can't get out, then we will look around for other career options from the get go.
I envy people who come out of school early when they do not mind giving up their time, and have degrees, many of which allow them to do things I can not consider, like law, architecture, working in management for a large business, etc. I could go back to school now, but sure wish i had already done it back then.