Comment College is a Social choice, not an Educational one (Score 1) 224
The choice of whether or not to go to college is almost purely socio-economic. All that is required to educate oneself is a desire to learn and access to knowledge. University can provide that access. So can a library card and a web browser. But college cannot give you the desire to learn and think. Without that, college is just four years of beer and parties.
So the college decision has little to do with whether you want to learn, but more:
1. What kind of job do you want? Some jobs require college (like teaching!)
2. What kind of social groups do you want to be in? Some snobby groups won't take you if you aren't Dr. you. Others will look at you cross-eyed if you have parchment.
3. Money. Who's paying? If you are, can you afford it? Could you make more working in the long run?
For me, nothing was more frustrating than being forced into classes where the teacher knew less than I did, and grades were not based on intelligence or knowledge but attendance and sycophancy, and I have no desire to work for a corporation that embraces such policies. Keeping to contracts and independant work will never make me rich, but I'm far happier doing what I want.
And BTW, 20 years into your life is far too late to "learn how to think". If you haven't been thinking critically since you learned to speak, your education is already a decade behind. Still, better late than never.
-Vince
So the college decision has little to do with whether you want to learn, but more:
1. What kind of job do you want? Some jobs require college (like teaching!)
2. What kind of social groups do you want to be in? Some snobby groups won't take you if you aren't Dr. you. Others will look at you cross-eyed if you have parchment.
3. Money. Who's paying? If you are, can you afford it? Could you make more working in the long run?
For me, nothing was more frustrating than being forced into classes where the teacher knew less than I did, and grades were not based on intelligence or knowledge but attendance and sycophancy, and I have no desire to work for a corporation that embraces such policies. Keeping to contracts and independant work will never make me rich, but I'm far happier doing what I want.
And BTW, 20 years into your life is far too late to "learn how to think". If you haven't been thinking critically since you learned to speak, your education is already a decade behind. Still, better late than never.
-Vince
