The Case Against College (Part 7)
I continue to make the case for why young people should not attend college in part seven of the case against college series..
This is part seven of my growing series, the case against college. You can read the previous reasons against college below.
College Counselors Encourage You To Pick A Major
First, if you do not know what you want to study—most young people don’t— college counselors encourage you to pick a major. They ask you some general questions to pin you down to a major. This is a way to get you into the higher education system so that the university can make money off you.
After you answer the college counselor’s questions while you sit awkwardly in their office, they will recommend a few majors. You will feel pressure to choose one since you think you must attend college. The college counselor is giving you a false choice. All of the options presented require you to take college classes.
The one unacceptable answer to a college counselor is that you have alternatives outside the higher education system.
You Likely Won't Use Your College Degree After Graduation
Second, you likely won’t use your college degree after graduation unless you studied a STEMs related field. Colleges now offer a wide range of degrees to get students to attend. Having a college degree once sets you apart from people. Today, almost everyone has one due to the societal pressure on young people to attend college.
Colleges have continued to add to the degrees that students can study to get more students. This is because colleges make their money from student loans. There may be some students who come from families who can pay for their education in cash, but by and large, young people do not have the money to go to college.
The higher education system has become a diploma factory producing a bad product. This is because it has become incentivized as a result of student loans. Employers then feed upon this by requiring many potential employees to have a minimum bachelor’s degree.
The sad reality is that society, and many people, care more that you have the correct fake piece of paper instead of having real skills. That is one reason why competency is declining in the United States.
Bad Investment
Third, attending college could end up being a bad investment. What was the point if you never used your degree at all for what you do for work? College could be a lousy investment for three main reasons.
Bad Investment Of Money
It may end up being a bad investment of your money. You may end up going into debt for college. Going into debt is the last thing you want to do when you are young and starting. Instead, it would help if you were working to find ways to make money. There is nothing wrong with working a sales or retail job while you learn about yourself and figure out what you want to do. You will be making actual money. You can then learn how to manage your money by following a budget, saving, and investing some of it.
Bad Investment Of Time
It may end up being a bad investment of time. What was the use of buying all those books, paying and living in student housing, sucking up to your professors, making friends with whom you will later lose contact, and studying for quizzes and tests if it does not benefit you? If the answer is that you did waste your time by attending college, that means at least four years of your life are now gone because of college. If you decide to go to graduate school, then even more of your time.
Bad Investment In Learning Skills
It may end up being a lousy investment in learning skills. There are a few significant problems with the higher education system regarding acquiring skills. You are learning from a professor. Professors know book knowledge, not real-world knowledge. You can only learn so much from reading books, primarily academic books. You must actively work to develop and improve your skills. You must learn to apply your knowledge to improve yourself. You only learn from listening to professors’ lectures. This means that it is primarily auditory learning. Depending on the class, a professor may poorly draw a visual here or there. This neglects the other ways that people learn. People learn in seven different ways:
Visual
Auditory
Reading and writing
Kinesthetic (doing)
Verbal
Social
Solitary
It is critical to understand how you learn. This can help you later in your life as you focus on self-education. Self-learning is the optimal way to educate yourself because you are doing it because you want to.
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Summary
These are three more reasons in this ever-growing series in the case against college. The Internet has made learning from others and access to knowledge easy for young people. It simply requires a quick keyword search to learn about a topic online, listen to a podcast, and watch YouTube videos. From there, you can learn about a topic for free until you decide that you want to go deeper into a subject by investing in purchasing a book or a digital course.
Bottom line: There is simply no reason why young people need to attend college.
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