The Crap Roll of Higher Education
August 6th, 2011Putting all the family fortune on 17 Red
by Richard Mann
Considering the number of graduates being churned out of the college sausage mill these days, we must ask whether there remains any real value in having a baccalaureate degree. Let’s see…college tuition keeps climbing while the number of jobs for new college grads keeps dwindling, so who is really benefiting from a higher education, a college education, these days?
Easy. Fannie, Freddy and the full complement of doubtlessly altruistic institutions of higher commerce that we refer to as banks.
Having a well-rounded all-purpose liberal arts degree used to mean something—that is–something even beyond learning to hold one’s liquor. It prepared students to find an avenue of interest and allowed them a broad education so they might have access to a variety of possible workplace situations when they graduated. Since dawn’s first light, a higher education, or college, was a rite of passage for kids from middle and upper middle income families, while kids from wealthier families had the option of using dad’s place holder at Harvard. Even the poor, the disadvantaged and the hopelessly over-pigmented could aspire to a scholarship during higher education’s golden years.
Given the escalating costs of higher education and the increasingly alarming student to jobs ratio, launching into a college education in Fall 2012 is a far more precarious adventure than it was in Fall 1970. The potential for financial disaster looms large, for parents and students. College has become a risky business.
It is far more cogent these days to weigh the value of a diploma from a public high school, which is free, versus the value of a BA from a public university, which is not. For a good many students and families playing the gambling game in the current economy, it is disheartening to have to face one cold hard truth: for the average student, the only real difference between the diploma and the baccalaureate degree is measured in how early on a child is going to go to work at McDonald’s and how much debt they will have amassed when they flip their first burger.
For the average student in the current economy, sticking with the diploma is a much safer bet. Obviously going to college has it’s advantages, but it’s a crap roll for sure.
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This article really got to me. we are a poorer class family. I work at wal-mart my husband was a truck driver……it took everything we made to raise our family of four kids…my children have all worked since they were 15 at fast food, small factories and the like……just to help out and get some of the things they wanted.They all still work at those kind of jobs and are going to a trade school for plumbing or heating and xray-tech or philbotomist. All of them hoping to better thier lives.We explained to them that this was the way to go because higher end jobs were not going to be available. The people who are willing to do manual labor will survive the ones that want to sit behind the big desk will not.