Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, has some common sense about our investment in four year liberal arts educations versus two year technical programs in this editorial.
Here are some of Reich's main points:
"For one thing, a four-year liberal arts degree is hugely expensive. Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years if not decades to pay off."
"And too many of them can’t find good jobs when they graduate, in any event. So they have to settle for jobs that don’t require four years of college. They end up overqualified for the work they do, and underwhelmed by it."
"Consider, for example, technician jobs. They don’t require a four-year degree. But they do require mastery over a domain of technical knowledge, which can usually be obtained in two years."
"Yet America isn’t educating the technicians we need. As our aspirations increasingly focus on four-year college degrees, we’ve allowed vocational and technical education to be downgraded and denigrated."
Well said Mr. Reich!
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Higher education is one of the most expensive thing all around the world. Especially in American economy it has big shared. here
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