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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
College costs are too high and will continue to increase as long as student loans are easy to get. The loans should be harder to get, especially for degrees that do not provide the earning potential to pay off the loan. Also, more work/study degree programs should be available, so the student can earn money while they are getting a degree.
Also, I don't agree with those who say that not everyone should get a college degree. Anyone can earn a degree, regardless of intelligence, and it will be an asset for your entire life. Often, having a degree will enable you to get a job even if you don't know anything. I have seen many people, especially in the Government, earning huge incomes with little or no talent at all, just because they have a college degree.
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Well, if everybody should have a college degree, then let’s just go to the store and buy the degree we like - sort of like a television set. The original idea of what is a university, does not apply. The degree means nothing anyways....
There is a common perception among some people that the applied degrees, those that are directly used for professions, like engineering, doctors etc where you get a good salary afterwards, are the more valuable ones. That the theoretical degrees or the pure arts and sciences such as philosophy, mathematics, history etc are less important or less valuable - yet the reason why we get a PhD (doctor of philosophy) is because that was the origin of the university; philosophy. It is the theorists that drive research and the future while the applied sciences are simply the tools that are developed as a result. The difference to me is like being able to develop theoretically the formulas on your own, as in calculus for example, as compared to simply being taught the formulas and applying them (like engineers do).