"higher education"

Most parents in America are willing to sacrifice greatly to provide their children with the opportunity to obtain a college education. They have been convinced that their children will rewarded for obtaining a college degree by increased income during their working lifetime. However, there are many young college graduates who are not realizing any substantial economic benefit from possessing a college degree. Why is this occurring?

Perhaps part of the problem is resident within the “education” that the student receives at college. First of all, the subject matter of education being provided from many colleges is rather suspect. If a college education is supposed to increase the possibility of obtaining a job, doesn’t if follow that the college should be teaching skills that the hiring companies want to see. In most colleges, especially many of the Universities, the educational curriculum is developed in some “academic” vacuum in which the objective of the education gets lost in esoteric and fuzzy academic objectives. Quite often, these objectives seem to have little practical value in the working environment. I think that it is pretty evident that the actual knowledge obtained from a college education is almost irrelevant when a company states that any degree will suffice. What they are really saying is that they are interested in someone who has demonstrated the determination to successfully obtain a college education, but the knowledge is really of little or no value. What a waste of years of effort by the graduate!

In many instances, the “knowledge” imparted to the graduate is worse than being unrelated to skills needed, it may actually impede the graduate’s ability to succeed at a given job. In addition, they seem to think that indoctrinating the students with political opinions (as preferred by the professor) is their main objective. Many of the parents are furious that they paid someone thousands of dollars to indoctrinate their child with communistic views or even something worse. What do you call it when the professors’ main objective is to force their political views onto their students? Would you call it propaganda, indoctrination, or education? What would you call it when your kid comes back home with a hatred of America embedded in his mind from his professors at college? What do you call it when your kid comes home convinced that the use of threats, force, and violence is acceptable behavior when dealing with disagreement? When you see these results from “college education” do you find yourself disenchanted with so-called “higher education”. Perhaps in the future we can talk about the common practice of “higher education” administrators who will do everything in their power to provide illegal aliens a college degree “free of charge”, but will short-change and oppose any effort to provide anything similar for American students.