Is "radical" good or bad.

[*michaelsean*]

(06-06-2019, 10:54 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I agree. A lot of degrees are not worth the money they cost.

Which is a shame because if the debt required to go to college continues to increase, then people will stop getting degrees in History, Liberal Arts, Literature and other low paying degrees and society will suffer for it.


When my Grandfather went to school, getting a degree was more than enough to get virtually any job (he got a degree in history and then became a CIA agent and eventually branch manager).

Nowadays, employers are looking for real world experience and bankable degrees, and those two things just do not coincide with liberals arts degrees at all. And liberal arts degrees cost about the same as an engineering degree (minus lab fees and things like that, which are relatively minor) but pay exponentially less once you graduate.

On the flip a lot of employees just want a degree, and they don't care what it's in which makes zero sense.  If you don't actually need the degree why would someone with a degree in say literature have an advantage over some kid who has been supporting himself since he was 18?  That takes much more discipline than getting average grades squeezed around four years of partying.