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The Patriot Post 6-5-2018
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College dropout numbers are rising sharply, according to the American Enterprise Institute29. In 2016, more than 40% of all students who started a four-year program in 2010 had not completed it. Put another way, close to two million students who begin college this fall will drop out before they earn a degree. Public two-year colleges have it even worse. Only 26% of full-time, first-time students will complete their degree within three years.
The decreasing likelihood of a college degree paying off and the increasing possibility that a student may not even finish college should make parents wary about blindly submitting their children to the college experience.
Leftists like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have pushed the idea that college is the be-all-end-all for getting ahead in life. The higher education industry (let’s face it, it is an industry) has happily embraced the idea. Together, the Left and colleges and universities, which are overwhelmingly run by the Left30, have convinced parents that if their kids don’t go to post-secondary school, then they will be losers. Thus the socialists’ proposal for “free college.”
Leftists want all Americans going through college so that they can be further indoctrinated. The colleges want the money. It’s quite a deal they’ve struck.
Along the way, colleges have milked the federal government, and many states, to subsidize tuition while steadily inflating the cost of an increasingly inferior education. Leftists have turned higher education into an entitlement, arguing that (only) college educated people are good for the country, so the country should help fund their education. And with taxpayers footing the bill, there is no end to how high leftists will push tuition costs. Look at what they’ve done with every other taxpayer-funded entitlement.
Having an educated workforce is good for the economy. People who graduate with a degree in science or engineering are very likely to find work early and contribute significantly to society. But what about those who majored in diversity studies or social justice? Where’s the market for those jobs?
Bryan Caplan31, author of The Case Against Education and economics professor at George Mason University, argues that college has become a scam.
“Just because it is lucrative for an individual doesn’t mean it’s a good idea for a country,” Caplan says of college. When most everyone goes to college, “you just raise the bar. Imagine you’re at a concert, and you want to see better. Stand up and of course you’ll see better. But if everyone stands up, you just block each other’s views.”
College graduates are having a tough time finding jobs, but that doesn’t mean that the job market is bad. It just means that all these potential workers are crowding into fields where there’s already a glut of talent.
The manufacturing sector is growing and looking for workers, and these are jobs that can be secured with vocational training that is significantly less costly than a college degree. Learning can be done anywhere at any time.
“If you want to go to Princeton, you don’t have to apply,” says Caplan. “Just move to the town and start attending classes.”
While we don’t necessarily endorse crashing college classes for free, Caplan makes a good point. Information on subjects you want to learn more about can be found online or at the local library or practically anywhere. But college students looking to start a career need to be practical about how they spend their time and money. Go where the jobs are, not where your passion leads you32.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56356-whats-up-with-college-dropouts
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Planned Parenthood Profits Off of Child Sexual Abuse33 — A new report indicates the abortion giant is ignoring reporting requirements for some rapes.
Big Labor Cheats in Getting Union Into Boeing Plant34 — A “micro-unit” among machinists has been created in Boeing’s South Carolina plant.
Video: Adam Carolla Says Don’t Make Things Worse35 — So, you’re graduating and you’re all idealistic. You want to make the world a better place.
OPINION IN BRIEF
John Sparks: “There is reason to question the full extent of exactly what [Monday’s Supreme Court] opinion means. Does it mean that if the Colorado commissioners had been more restrained in their public statements and more circumspect about how they conducted themselves during public hearings that a majority of justices might have viewed a decision against Phillips as defensible? And what about the right of free speech which Phillips raised by pointing out that by being forced to bake a cake in these circumstances he was being compelled to speak a message provided by the government or another person with which he strongly disagreed? The ‘compelled speech doctrine’ (W. Va. State Board of Education v. Barnett), which remains frequently cited after 75 years of use, was essentially ignored by the Court in the majority opinion. One can rejoice that baker Phillips is finally allowed to return to his cake-making for opposite-sex couples planning weddings. However, for those other providers of goods and services — photographers and florists, for example — who observe religious limits on how or whom they can serve, this decision leaves them in the murky waters of uncertainty.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle (384-322 BC)
For the record: “He was my boss. He was the most powerful man on the planet. He was 27 years my senior with enough life experience to know better. He was at the time at the pinnacle of his career, while I was at my first job out of college.” —Monica Lewinsky on Bill Clinton, who is making the rounds this week saying justice prevailed in this case
Great question: “Is there ANY reporter willing to ask Bill Clinton about RAPING me?” —Juanita Broaddrick
Alpha Jackass: “I wish that I didn’t suspect that the prolonged, poorly explained public absence of Melania Trump could be about concealing abuse. I wish that it was a ludicrous prospect. I wish that [Donald Trump] wasn’t a man with a history of abusing women, including those to whom he is married.” —Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith
Progressive bromides: “Republicans are told ‘read the Wall Street Journal, play golf, and talk about pro sports.’ The men especially are all programmed a certain way. They don’t have too many outliers, Republicans. They all behave basically the same.” —MSNBC’s Chris Matthews
Braying Jackass: “Joy Behar apologized on the air [for what] she said … about Mike Pence. By the way, Mike Pence’s Christianity? She’s right.” —radio host Bill Press
Caution, comrades: “You know, we talk about this blue wave. I think there’s going to be a blue wave, but I think the Democrats should understand that blue wave is going to be running headlong into this gerrymandered system. The question is whether or not that blue wave will actually reach the shore.” —Eric Holder
And last… “Women’s March founder: Everybody has a right to exist! Except Israel. Nancy Pelosi: Every life has dignity and value! Except unborn lives. LGBTQ: Everybody has a right to live their authentic lives! Except Christians.” —Liz Wheeler
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56364-tuesday-short-cuts
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