The Watchtower: Oct 1, 2005
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What is the value of Higher Education?
Most people who enroll in a university look forward to earning a degree that will open doors for them to well-paying secure jobs. Government reports show, however, that only about one quarter of those who go to college earn a degree within six years- a dismal success rate. Even so, does that degree translate into a good job? Note what current research and studies have to say.
"Going to Harvard or Duke won't automatically produce a better job and higher pay... Companies don't know much aobut young employment candidates. A shiny credential may impress. But after that , what people can or can't do counts for more."- Newsweek, November 1, 1999.
"While today's typical job requires higher skills than in the past.., the skills required for these jobs are strong high school-level skills-math, reading , and writing at a night-grade level..., not college-leel skills. ....Students do not need to go to college to get a good job, but they do need to master high school-level skills."--- American Educator, Spring 2004
"Most colleges are seriously out of step with the real world in getting students ready to become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools... are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% from 1996 to 2000... Meanwhile, those expensive, time-sucking college diplomas have become worth less than ever. " ---Time , January 24, 2005
"Projections from the U.S. Department of Labor through 2005 paint the chilling scenario that at least one-third of all four-year college graduates will not find emloyment that matches their degrees." -- The Futurist, July/August 2000.
In view of all of this, more and more educators are seriously doubting the value of higher education today. "We are educating people for the wrong futures," laments the Futurist report. In contrast, note what the Bible says about God: " I , Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk. O if only you would actually pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become just like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. " -- Isaigh 48:17, 18
(((nice little ending bible quote telling us to let God teach us not college)))
