Some rare good news is emerging on the educational front. Apparently, America has started to “fall out of love” with college degrees.
When I first saw the headline – “How America Started to Fall Out of Love With College Degrees” – in the venerable liberal rag Time magazine, no less – I confess I burst out laughing even before reading it. “It’s because those degrees are overpriced and useless,” I told my computer.
“Back around 2010, soon after the financial crash tanked the economy, Americans’ unflagging faith in higher education started to falter,” begins the article. “By 2011, more than half of college graduates were unemployed or underemployed. If a bachelor’s degree was a golden ticket for some, for many others it wasn’t much.”
Having been brainwashed into believing a college degree was essential for everyone – regardless of the market needs for the subject matter being studied – colleges raked in untold billions in student loans and provided worthless pieces of paper to their students. To say many of these students regretted their lifetime enslavement to debt is to barely hit at the level of financial devastation that resulted. Student loan debt is one of the most soul-crushing and cruel obligations imaginable.
And Time is surprised that America is falling “out of love” with college degrees?
“Campaigns extolling higher education as a way to work ‘smart’ rather than working ‘hard,’ with images of a dirty plumber next to a shiny college graduate did not factor in the price of tuition and the time and skills needed to complete a college degree,” intones Time.
What Time doesn’t address is whether the expensive shiny degrees have any merit in the job market. Is a degree in wokeness worth the $150,000 you paid for it?
I beg to differ on this.
I am non binary, and have a MASTERS in Gender Studies from UMES
My mommy paid everything off, and I went from Cashier to French Fry preparing at McDonald’s. here in Salisbury
so there , and poo on you !
That pretty much sums it up.
? ? ? ? You go girl !!!!
A trade school is so much more beneficial than college. I wish there were more of them.
You can see that a college degree is totally worthless by just listening to Julie Giordano talk or mess up our county budget. Typical “communications” major
My son got his CDL at WORWIC. Immediately after receiving his license, we got a job driving OTR. It was tough work, long time between driving and get home, but after three years OTR and banking his paychecks, he’s now driving for a local trucking company and loves the job. He’s also making more money than his two older sisters, both with college degrees.