https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/03/the-third-education-revolution/556091/
And a strong reason why, even if parents have enough saved up for full-pay for 4 years at a private, other than for a handful of tippy-top schools, it makes much more sense to save some gunpowder for educational spending in the future instead of blowing it all on undergrad (and investments tend to compound).
And another reason why killing yourself in HS may not be so smart.
I don’t think life-long learning is the wave. Once you start working, it is hard to get motivated to engage in additional schooling
I personally appreciated classes more after I started working.
Even if not formal course work, continued learning of new or changing stuff is necessary to have a successful career.
If you don’t continue life long learning you’ll be a dinosaur very quickly. Things change really fast and whole industries disappear and are created seemingly “overnight.”
Arguably the most important goal of college is to develop intellectual curiosity and to “learn how to learn”. Creating life-long-learners was an explicit goal of the school I attended many, many years ago. It is one of the foundations of a “traditional liberal arts education”, so it is as much a “blast from the past” as a “wave of the future” .
Interesting. My job requires constant learning. I sometimes think about doing a masters in something. But then there is little point if i can just read books/self learn i suppose!
I did take a formal class while working once. Too time consuming:(