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Jabba_the_Gutt posted...

Zeus posted...

Other than having the degree, probably not since I could have learned everything I needed for my career through self-study in maybe 2 years and entered the workforce that much sooner. However, being able to point to a degree clearly helps. I never finished my MBA but that would have been of far greater value. The company I was working for that was covering 75% of the cost wound up either discontinuing that or closing (I can't remember if the two events were tied together) and the places I've worked since haven't offered tuition reimbursement.

In general, America has one of the highest college enrollment rates in the world (higher than places giving it away for free) -- despite those degrees not doing people a lot of good -- which has played a large part in creating debt crises and if Warren or Sanders's terrible free college plan goes into effect, things will just get much, much worse.

Self-study? If you'll being studying by yourself, you could've just said, study. But do go into detail with how free college will make things much worse.

I could have, if study and self-study weren't distinctly separate in the same way you could say vehicle instead of car and hope that somebody understood what you meant. But before you get into trolling more with semantics, how about letting me know who's behind that alt?

And if you don't understand how much the US *already* spends on education --- before covering the rest of the bill and having countless more people enter the program -- I'm not sure I can help you nor do I think college would help you understand it. I'd maybe encourage some self-study, but I imagine it's something of a lost cause regardless. At any rate, the American collegiate system is fundamentally broken and is currently turning out well-educated baristas, a larger issue that will only be exacerbated -- rather than addressed -- through free college which will place another onerous tax burden on the American public. Of course, that assumes the quality of education itself doesn't also further deteriorate under the new system due to how the funding might be handled. As it is, though, America's college enrollment issues demonstrate that we don't have an issue getting kids to college in the first place considering that our per capita rates are *higher* than many nations which offer it for free. You'd have a much stronger case that something has to be done if that wasn't the case and, by the way, many of the current problems resulted from efforts to expand enrollment rates (such as the college loan issues which helped to balloon tuition rates)
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