<p>Very interesting article from today's New York Times. I'd be interested in thoughts of others.</p>
<p>Career</a> U. - Making College ‘Relevant’ - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>This is so sad and shows the problem in our education system. Kids don’t love learning, they just want to be wealthy. </p>
<p>This is more proof that too many people are going to college and a BA doesn’t mean as much as it used to. If less people got degrees, those who did could pursue learning and not have to worry about fighting for jobs…</p>
<p>Sorry, but I think the liberal arts are way more important than business. Those kids who just want a career(like in the article) belong in trade school or a school that just focuses on the kid’s career-not their education. There are plenty of programs like University of Phoenix for people who want to focus on getting a job. Leave the colleges for learning!!!</p>
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<p>Maybe they just want to be able to pay back their student loans. Those things are like the financial equivalent of syphilis. Mix that in with a recession, stagnant wages for many industries, and surely you can see where kids are coming from.</p>
<p>^^but so many of the kids who don’t love learn really don’t belong in traditional 4 year college(at least where I’m from)</p>
<p>That’s a good point. Still, you can love to learn all you want but if you’re terrified of not being able to afford a place to live or food for your family or not being able to go to the hospital when you’re sick then these things sound like luxuries rather than possibilities. If you want to find the problem, don’t look at the kids but look at the cost of college and the affordability gap caused by the fact that prices continue to rise while most people don’t make more money.</p>
<p>Who says that wanting a degree from a major that is financially rewarding means that kids don’t love to learn? The last time I looked, those engineering degrees took some serious desire on the part of the best students in many schools to obtain. Also, those degrees have more traditional liberal arts requirements in addition to the emphasis on math and science.</p>
<p>The problem is meaningless degrees that confer neither intellectual thought nor improved job opportunities. Things like many undergraduate “business” degrees can have absolutely nothing to do with academic rigor and provide no worthwhile skills.</p>