<p>"This graduation season, some experts challenge whether four-year degree is path to success" </p>
<p>Tokenadult, I was disappointed that the link did not work for me.</p>
<p>I think that this topic is very important for the future. While Obama talks about how everyone should go to college, I think we need to go back and reverse this expectation.</p>
<p>There are many people who are in college for vocational reasons, and college really is not essential for doing the jobs they envision. There are others for whom education targeted at a vocation would be most useful. Then there are others for whom and intellectual education fits.</p>
<p>Right now, everyone is going broke, kids are starting off with debt, all for college classes which people hate taking.</p>
<p>I have 3 kids. One is a true intellectual, one needed to go to get prepared for the career he wanted, and the other one really shouldn’t have to go at all, not that she is without plans for her future, just that college won’t really help her with that and she is not an academic kid either.</p>
<p>For now, I can’t read the article though!</p>
<p>Of course college is not for everyone. Is this supposed to be new news? College should be for someone who loves to learn and wants to pursue something specific that will lead them towards whatever career they choose. </p>
<p>College is not for students whose parents force them to go because evil will fall onto the family that is not full of college graduates. Sure parents just want the best for their kids, but it really is possible to succeed without a college degree. It’s just a matter of choice. If you’re going to be miserable studying for another four years and have in mind a way to provide for yourself without a degree, why pay tens of thousands of dollars and torture yourself through college?</p>
<p>Just google the quote</p>
<p>[This</a> graduation season, some experts challenge whether four-year degree is path to success - Kingsport Times-News Online](<a href=“http://timesnews.net/article.php?id=9023053]This”>http://timesnews.net/article.php?id=9023053)</p>
<p>Interesting that we justify college by looking at the historical benefit. Can that be projected into the future?</p>
<p>Treetop, are you from Kingsport? I used to live in Bristol.</p>
<p>No… I don’t know what state you’re talking about… I just googled. ;)</p>
<p>Ah, nevermind. I used to live near that paper that randomly came up on Google. Weird. </p>
<p>Back to your previously scheduled thread…</p>