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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Maybe I am too practical but I look at what a college degree can get me in the market place. Math has no market value to me, I have no desire to design buildings or be an engineer.
I can understand and respect education for the sake of education. But still some people spend a lot of time working on these degrees then get stuck working at crummy jobs with people who never went to college.
To me that’s the value of college. I could turn my high school diploma into a very comfortable living working construction. College is very expensive and very time consuming, so I want to get something out of it.
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The value of a college education is not economic. There have been some interesting analysis done on spending $XXXX on a college education or investing it somewhere else. The somewhere else won.
I've made more money with my working class skills than I have with my academic skills (and I have 18 yrs of post high school education) but I wouldn't trade my education for anything.
I think college needs to be approached with the attitude, "How can this experience make me a richer, broader, more self-actualized person?"