Maybe they can get a couple of volunteers from the staff at SouthPark.
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Re: Art Skills Needed at Bethel
by suavojr 44 Replies latest jw friends
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This fails to mention that every graduate has been through years of education, and every non-graduate has been through the same, but less years of education. If a graduate does not have practical skills, then the non-graduate have have even less so.
"Higher education, with its emphasis on academic study, often produces graduates who have few or no practical skills, leaving them unprepared to deal with the realities of life."Besides, if you earn enough after graduating you pay those with cheaper skills to fix your car, install your washing machine and paint your fence. Where's the problem?
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suavojr
I am fully aware that getting a college degree does not equal instant success. Why don't we balance the conversation?
The GB is not completely wrong about not recommending higher education, the problem is they look down on its members that attend college. They consider such a person as a lover of this world and mark the person as materialistic. But to be fair,higher education is a big decision and cannot be taken lightly.
Review some of the excerpts from the following secular book.
Is College Worth It?: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education
* Many kids go to college just because it’s “the next thing” expected of them. Majorities of high school seniors do go to college, even though many of them really don’t want to go (at least, they don’t want to go and study). Our own President has even said that every American should get some higher education. Every American? Really? Because there are lots of house builders, electricians, and landscapers out there who have no business in college. I couldn’t do their jobs if I tried. But I really don’t care if they went to college. Bennett goes into how our society looks down on those without college degrees, and this is probably true. It’s a shame though, because by pushing everyone into college, the colleges are forced to lower their standards.* Colleges are lowering their standards. Colleges must make money. With the advent of the internet, students can rate their professors. Students are more likely to highly rate “easy” profs who give little homework. Tougher profs usually earn lower ratings from students. Fewer kids sign up for their classes, and soon they have to decide — do they decrease the rigor of their courses, or run the risk of losing their jobs altogether?
* Many colleges today spend vast sums on things that have nothing to do with education. They feature million dollar gyms and more — all to try to attract the more well-heeled students and their parents.
* Colleges also often feel that a higher price makes them appear more “prestigious.” Yet Bennett has charts of various schools — their 4 year cost, and the 30- year “return on investment” of attending them. Many have a negative return: the student would have been better off investing college money and going straight to work out of high school than paying to attend those colleges, because it will take so long to pay back the cost. What madness!
* The stereotype is accurate: college professors are liberal by wide margins, and that means that many of their students come out of school with liberal ideologies as well. Additionally, while many lower-level college profs and assistants are low-paid, colleges also have their share of “prima donnas” who teach only a class or two, offer little to no office hours, and spend most of their days shuttered away in their offices enjoying luxurious perks.
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DreamWorks just announced layoffs...
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