Higher Ed Needs to Retool

See, there’s nothing inherently wrong with going to college. There’s nothing inherently wrong with going into vocational education, either.

Where there’s a problem is in this idea that post-high school education is about personal development rather than training one for some field in which they can be useful to society. Especially as education costs skyrocket, forcing more and more students to take on student loans, but without any attempt at providing them with the knowledge to understand the cost-benefit ratio of tuition compared to certain majors.

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So we get people who go into six-figure student loan debt because they decided to get a masters degree in puppetry.

Ed Morrissey

Pipefitters and welders make damned good livings, and they don't have $200,000 in student-loan debt dogging them at the beginning of their adult lives either. But that's a cultural retooling, not a higher-ed retooling. Higher education needs a complete overhaul, and it has to start with an end to federal incentives that prop up the status quo. 

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