This article caught my attention because it is a response to an editorial that Jim blogged about recently. This person was arguing against Michael Ellsberg, who believed that attending college was overrated. This letter to the editor argues that even if we do need more entrepreneurs, going to college can still be helpful. The article argues that colleges offer useful classes such as web design, and set students up to earn more money in the jobs they recieve after college. Since entrepreneurs generally need day jobs while their business is being created, it could help them to have attended colleges.
However, I think there is a considerable flaw in the writer's logic. If a college graduate earns more in their day job than a drop out, is it enough to make up for the cost of college tuition? After all, the dropout will have all the money they might have spent on college to help them start up their business. I think this might help them more than the money they would earn as a wage-earner after college. Still, I don't have much background knowledge on these issues. If the writer of this letter wanted to convince me, they would probably need more statistics and evidence to back it up.
Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/studied-the-dropout-vs-the-graduate.html?ref=opinion
I find kids are going to college simply to "go to college". If you're going to go, I think you should KNOW what you're going to be, and what you're going to do at college. Why waste the money on a pointless degree if you never needed it in the first place?
ReplyDeleteIsn't the point of going to college figuring out what you want to do?
ReplyDeleteI like what Mikaela said. I wrote one on this too!
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