As everyone knows college tuition costs are rising at a steady pace, but why?. Why should students pay to do something they can do themselves. I can pack up and leave tomorrow and have just the same if not more of an experience then a college freshmen without paying an arm and a leg. I asked one of my teachers why should i go to college. She told me because it gets you to read books and to think in a way that you never have before. I'm paying 26,000 dollars a year so that i can read a book that i can simply buy on amazon. What the hell kind of sense does that make. All college is full of is a bunch of pompous ass holes who think they are better then everyone else cause they go to college/university. I will admit that college does help those unfortunate close minded people who can't simply say, Why do i have to do it that way, but what about those fortunate souls who can. Should they pay all that money to be told what to do. People don't go to college anymore to become smart they go to show everyone else that they are smart. Now i'm not saying all colleges or college goers are evil just the ones i don't like.
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You need to go to college so you can learn how to proofread your writing.
Also, yes, there are things you can do for your education without going to college. However, you cannot recreate or simulate the atmosphere of listening to a [good] college professor or class discussions or forums or study groups, etc. etc. etc. I think the purpose of college is more evident once you have gone through it. Don't give up on it so easily. Cost is retarded, I know, I'm paying it (and will be for many many years to come), but it is the most valuable thing I have. It gets better after freshman year, I promise. And if you want to leave to have an experience, leave and have an experience. But go back. For the love of all that is legible, go back.
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"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
-Buddha
I was of that same mindset until I discovered Shimer. There's a college out there for you somewhere. Mine just happens to be one to teach people how to think on their own about complex issues instead of feeding you facts and expecting you to remember them.
Yes, college is expensive. But one of them out there will teach you something you won't be able to learn elsewhere and that you'll use the rest of your life.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
college does help those unfortunate close minded people who can't simply say, Why do i have to do it that way, but what about those fortunate souls who can. Should they pay all that money to be told what to do.
On the contrary, I paid a lot of money so I have the ability to say "why do I have to do it that way?" and then have the educational background to defend myself.
"Bachelor of Science in Nursing" just sounds so much better than "I learned that Clara Barton founded the Red Cross by watching Jeopardy. Please to be letting me stick a needle in you now?"
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"...There is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply... eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt."
-30 Rock-
You are paying for more experienced teachers to educate you. You are paying for a more successful future. Once the tuition and so forth is paid off your money will be made in no time. You have to understand that the teachers pay must accumulate from somewhere. They have jobs too that need to be paid. And if everyone got in to college for free then there would be no point in going because everyone would be equally smart and have equal jobs and society would crash. There is money out there. Plenty. So do not complain about the prices if you have not done everything you can for money.