Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)
What a load of crap... &quot;why do schools focus on unmarketable skills?&quot; Gee, I don&#x27;t know? Maybe because we shouldn&#x27;t be teaching kids that they only exist to learn about a trade so they can be another cog in the machine? Because there are things worth learning beyond just what&#x27;s valuable to the job market and every person should be given the opportunity to branch out and be diverse in their studies?<p>Colleges give you all those supplemental classes so that you&#x27;ll be well-rounded. Sure, you&#x27;d graduate faster and spend less money if you only took the classes that were immediately relevant to your career, but math proofs and math in general aren&#x27;t always practical... it&#x27;s about training your brain to solve problems, and the more abstract you can think about and approach a problem, the more creative you can get with your solutions.<p>And it&#x27;s not even just about skills... college is a whole different ball game than High School in terms of meeting new people. High School is all about cliques and for a lot of people (myself included) was fucking miserable. College allows you to meet a diverse set of new people who may or may not share common interests and for me, at least, allowed me to grow as a person in ways that don&#x27;t necessarily translate to anything &quot;marketable&quot;.<p>Sure, not everyone is meant to go to college and the mentality that our parents had when we were younger, that &quot;you have to go to college or you&#x27;ll be flipping burgers for the rest of your life&quot; is toxic, but those of us who do want to pursue a career that requires a higher education shouldn&#x27;t have to spend the rest of our lives in debt just to do so.