<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>Because what else would I be doing?</p>
<p>^ on the internet absorbing its wonders :D</p>
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true, but I don’t think that means that he was saying everyone must go to college. I just thought it was saying that you guys were undermining a college education more than it should be undermined.</p>
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well, to be honest, I only looked at what migraine quoted so my bad 
but saying that “my kids must go” isn’t the same as saying that every kid with the opportunity must go. you have a better idea about what kind of environment your own kids will be raised in and how they’ll grow up, so you can make the judgment to an extent. you can’t make that judgment for other kids.</p>
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Now that depends on the college you go to 
And your attitude towards college. If you go to learn, then you’ll have a great opportunity learn. If you just want the degree, then you’re going to miss out on learning a lot.
I’ve met a lot of people in the field of academia and research in the last week who have had A LOT of higher education. They are extremely intellectual and intelligent people.</p>
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Correlation is not causation. College is not the reason why people change. Look further in depth at the roles and situations college puts people in and you will see that these changes in people can be replicated in an entirely different environmen as long as the key stressors/roles are present.</p>
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With my interpretation, I do not agree with what you have said. “Experience teaches you one thing. College teaches you another.”
“Formal education teaches you analysid, and experience teaches you common sense.”</p>
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care to elaborate? :)</p>
<p>It seems that most people here agree that college education is correlated with a lot of various factors (changing/increased worldviews, etc). </p>
<p>As for the causal connection: college grants you certain opportunities that are either impossible to obtain, or very difficult to obtain, in other sectors of the world. The social interactions of dorm life and greek life, the act of taking classes day in and day out, the extracurric. opportunities, the ability to experiment with the negative effects minimized, study abroad (truly unique - traveling has nothing on that), etc. There are almost no real world situations that come close to replicating such things, and even those that do are often limited in significant ways (whether in how difficult it is to obtain, the duration, etc).</p>
<p>These all are the causal links which are unique to college and why college educated adults, on average, are better adults than non-college educated adults - because people can’t get those opportunities as easily or in the same way as in college.</p>
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<p>Better in what ways?</p>
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<p>I fail to see how this would make you a “better” adult</p>
<p>^ Answered in the previous few posts.</p>
<p>Because employers are idiots and think a degree is indicative of anything.</p>
<p>Degrees aren’t an indication of anythig?</p>
<p>If degrees weren’t indicative of anything, then why would everyone push and push 50-60k a year to get one?</p>
<p>Yeah Yeah. Maybe some employers will like to see some work experience but an education is “an economic passport”</p>
<p>This is from a summary of the book “Naked Economics” By Charles Wheelen.</p>
<p>"As Wheelan says and economists have proved, “a college education yields about 10% return on investment, about a 10% higher earnings”</p>
<p>Human capital growth (new technology inventors, operators, etc…), makes the economy grow, the economy pie is bigger and there are more opportunities to create new needs, markets and jobs. With some new jobs, some old jobs may be redundant (creative destruction), the workers more educated and with more skills have more chances to stand in the process. </p>
<p>Human capital is not only about increasing incomes but about making the society better off as a whole. E.g. with more educated woman in developing countries, there are higher chances for their children under five to survive; Educated parents take more precautions when looking after their children (car safety bells etc…) and invest more in their children´s human capital. As the Economy Nobel prize Gary Becker said “While all forms of capital – physical capital such as machinery and plants, financial capital, and human capital – are important, human capital is the most important. Indeed, in a modern economy, human capital is by far the most important form of capital in creating wealth and growth”. As an example compare Japan and Switzerland with almost to natural resources but with one of the biggest income per capita of the world vs other countries such as Nigeria or Venezuela with their mines and oil wealth but less developed."</p>
<p>It’s just an expectation nowadays from my family and the community I grew up in. People don’t ask us what we are doing after high school; instead, they ask us where we’re going to college. For me, I just want to go to the best college I can. Ideally I’d go to MIT or Stanford but I’m not good enough for those schools, so I’ll probably go to GA-Tech. I want to work at a company like Google or Microsoft, and I’ll need a CS degree from a good university to do that. Sure, I’m elitist, but I like trying to be the best of the best. I want to make a lot of money because I think money is a means to an end. $1,000,000 doesn’t make me happy, but retiring does. I honestly don’t care about “learning about the world.” At most, I’d travel, but I’d only do it for having a good time and not because I care about learning about other cultures, philosophies, etc.</p>
<p>Same questions annoying me too.</p>
<p>To make some mula.</p>
<p>I want my kids to go to college simply because it is the best option for success in life. There are obviously exceptions (Steve Jobs, artists etc.) but what else would you do if you didn’t go except for start a business or something? College is a time for you to grow as an individual (your 20s in general are, really) and it is important to expand your mind and expand your horizons at this time. Whether you like it or not, having a degree or college experience means more than spending a summer exploring Australia to a future employer.</p>
<p>I go to college because I want to learn and grow more as a person. But also, I go because I have a lot to live up to and be thankful for. </p>
<p>My mom is a professor and went through hell to get her PhD and then a tenure-track job while raising a family with 3 kids (me while she was finishing up her MA/PhD, my sister when she first got her job, and then my younger sister when she first became Chair). I remember my mom nearly working herself to death every day by either studying for exams, working on her thesis, preparing lectures, grading assignments, staffing courses, organizing conferences, or just plain old taking care of us and cleaning the house before finally having family time with us when my dad got home from his blue collar job . </p>
<p>To a lot of people, one’s education is just something to do. Kids graduate high school and then advance onto a college campus, whether they want to be there or not. For others, they know that they don’t want to fix up cars or work on farms for the rest of their lives, so they take a shot and enter into the unknown, still not entirely convinced of what they’re doing. </p>
<p>In my life, I’ve seen how someone beat all the odds and immersed herself in education to try and make a better life for her husband and son and then eventually her daughters as well. The only reason I’m in college is because my mom made the sacrifice herself 17 years ago, and as such, I’m not going to let her down and deprive myself of any opportunity. </p>
<p>Of course it’s for the career enhancer and ultimate monetary investment, but at least for me, it’s also for the simple sake of pride and reciprocation. </p>
<p>You never know what might happen to you, but one thing that no one can ever take away from you is your education.</p>
<p>^ i liked your post a lot minus the closing the statement. that could maybe use a bit of work but the rest WAS GREAT. you have a good story and you told it well.</p>
<p>kudos sir!</p>
<p>“Everyone has a story. Only the strong of heart have enough courage to tell it. Only the eager of heart are willing enough to listen.”</p>
<p>“Stories are stories. They are just that. They are experiences, memories. Things in which we tell to define us, but only through our telling do we realize we are one in the same.”</p>