Today, having a college education is virtually required in order to obtain a good paying, high quality job. Why is it that the average American high school graduate, who has spent a majority of his/her life (approximately 14 years) in a classroom, has to go through another 2, 4, 6, possibly 8 years of crap in order to get a respectable occupation? More than half of the subjects students learn in high school and college will never relate to their future occupancy.
Upon enlistment in the United States Armed Forces, or at least in the USN and the USCG, recruiters evaluate new recruits to see (1) where they stand academically and (2) what fields they may be interested in. The military is not obsessed with college educations. They just want to know that the recruit has a general knowledge of certain subjects. The military then takes full responsibility for teaching the recruit(s) how to do their job. Why can’t more of the civilian world operate this way?
2007-06-21 02:19:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
A degree does get you a LOT more options, but not everyone is cut out for school, either. In this day and age, however, you can't earn a family wage with minimal skills. How you get those skills, and what type of skills you get, are determined by how much energy a person wants to invest in getting them. But there are other ways to earn skills just like you said, by joining the military, going to vocational school or community college, or even teaching yourself by opening your own business. The good news is, this is AMERICA, not communist Russia, and you have those choices.
Having worked with college graduates and non-college graduates, I see a distinct difference in the level of writing skills and ability to master tasks because of the applied higher learning. I'm not suggesting that a bachelor's degree is the only way to be a good worker, but there should be a noticeable difference in skill sets by people who have applied higher learning, or the whole world would have caught on by now and quit going to school just for a piece of paper. That being said, I've met many an idiot with a PhD who don't seem to have any more remarkable skills than someone with a bachelor's degree:). But if you can stomach the schooling, to complete at least a bachelor's will open up many more opportunities for yourself, and America is, after all, the Land of Opportunity.
2007-06-21 02:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by julie m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think about it, back in like the 30's, if you went to collage, you were rich and smart, and not many finished higschool compared to todays statistics. Then there was a demad for specialty jobs, and people had to start finishing highschool in order to earn the money they wanted. Now, most jobs are not only needing a high school diploma, but a collage degree, so people go to collage for a degree. Whether they remember, or use that information ever again (doutfull) they can go to a high quality job with high pay, and be highered on the spot, because they have that degree. It's all about the money. If you didn't need an education of any kind to get a high quality job, that pays lots of denaro, then no one would go to school, what would be the point, you'd be making a great living.
2007-06-21 02:28:14 · answer #2 · answered by ME! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I was in the Army, my advanced training lasted a year, with classroom work lasting from 8-5 Monday to Friday. I was paid and provided room and board. Half of the people who started the school with me didn't graduate. Do you have any idea how expensive that training was? Companies would not be able to afford that expense, so the burden of education is shifted to the individual. It wasn't always this way; in the days of cottage industry, apprenticeships were common. However, as we have moved into becoming a highly specialized, technical society, the education system has evolved as well.
2007-06-21 02:31:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because college is supposed to prepare you for the workforce as high school is still teaching the basics.
They don't want lazy people who couldn't go another 4 years to learn what they want to do, college is more like a specialty, so you can narrow down what you want to do.
If you work hard and get into a place and work your way up, sometimes experience takes over a college degree.
The military isn't obsessed with college education, because they train you like college but just alot tougher and more exercising. They also give you the funding to go to college later on too.
Civilans aren't as disciplined as the military and you would have millions on lazy people not working or if they were the U.S. wouldn't be able to compete with anyone with that type of work force, sure there are many who are skilled and learn at the work site by working their way up as I mentioned, my friend Kelly has done that and she is a loan officer, but there are many many people who don't want to work for it like Kelly. If they all had her drive I would say yeah. but most people don't have that drive it seems.
2007-06-21 02:33:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
College is an experience that is not just money related, although it definetly helps. But it also expands your mind and your understanding of the world, I am still going for my degree and I will be 54 this summer. I disagree that the subjects you learn aren't useful, they all interrelate.
2007-06-21 02:32:58 · answer #5 · answered by Maria b 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋