begin quoting Todd Walton as of Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:15:05PM -0800: [snip] > Not every one needs a college > education. Not every one can benefit from what universities provide. > Some people, I think, would be better off going straight from high > school to a job.
Let me sorta disagree here. I *do* think that everyone -- aside from a few who are going to have problems *anyway* -- needs a college education. I think they can benefit from what a University provides. However. I think that most people would be better off going straight from high school to a job for a year to two, where they can experience the joy of paying rent and suchlike. And THEN go to college. (In hindsight, I wish I would have taken the money I had saved in high-school and spent a year travelling, and then gone on to college purely on student loans.) > Some people would do well at a vocational school. Most would. Doesn't mean they wouldn't be better off with a few years in a university. > Not every role in life requires the same education format. Computer True. But more importantly, not everyone *learns* the same way. > jobs have done well with the certification format. Auto mechanics do What, MCSEs and suchlike? Hardly. > well with a set number of weeks of general purpose training. I got an The thing is, an auto mechanic is a mechanic for a few hours a day. (I knew truck drivers with advanced degrees. They did what they did because they enjoyed it, and I believe they enjoyed it because they knew they had options...) > *excellent* education in a two year program that taught me how to run > a nuclear reactor, with periodic training updates after that. And it > didn't require philosophy, or math beyond basic calculus. It's not your job that requires philosophy, it's your _life_. Some people can pick that up on their own, and some need some help. [snip] -Stewart -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
