IMO, one of the great failures of education (lower and higher) over the last couple of decades has been the emphasis as "job traing" as opposed to what might be called "life training".
If you look at the ads run by colleges, they seem to push the better job/ better pay aspect. Maybe, with the high cost involved, they are forced to show an economic benefit to that amount of debt.
Like many people, I am not working in a field closely related to either my Bachelor's, or Master's degrees. Yet, I feel that my college experience prepared me as a person to deal with the changes that happen in life.
Bring back the Liberal Arts curricula, and teach them HOW to think; not WHAT to think.

(Goodness-- I DO sound like a raving liberal, don't I?)

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