Originally Posted by Guest

Education is all relative. Specialized degrees are valuable but as AS, BS and most MBA's become as common as folks owning a cell phone, they lose their value. Example, which I find predictive to our future. In my travels overseas, I have known many college graduates with degrees that have had to take low level jobs. For instance, we had a full-time maid that had a Masters degree in teaching and used to teach five languages. She said she made more money working for us. I knew a gate guard at the American embassy that was a lawyer. The receptionist in our medical unit was a doctor, a pediatrician. She made more money as a receptionist than in her own country, Armenia as a doctor. When I worked in Turkey, I had a former Air Force colonel as my interpreter. That's the way it will be here unless we realize that not everybody needs to have a college education to make a good living. And that today's college is yesterdays Senior High School. We need engineers, doctors and other specialists. We don't need Liberal arts degrees. And we don't need to waste tax dollars on free college when we already owe foreigners trillions.