Don't Send Your Kids to College
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Don't Send Your Kids to College
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#2There's more to college than spending and making money, I think.
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#3There's more to college than spending and making money, I think.
Everything is mostly always measured by money. And it seems like the author of the post reckons it's really easy for everyone to become entrepreneurs. I would say let the kids do what they want with their life - provide some guidelines but don't stop them if they want to go to college.
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#4For many, college is a place to safely transition from childhood into adulthood surrounded by peers doing the same thing: making the same mistakes and sharing advice.
It is also where many make the core of their life-long friends. The serious ones - the ones who come to births, marriages and funerals. It is also where many of us met our partners.
Starting a business will not provide all this.
I would suggest doing both. Start with college. This way you will have many of the support structures you will need to get you through the tough times and should it all go wrong you will have people to help you get back on your feet.
College is also a good place to find intelligent, like-minded founders.
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#5every time I read about the high tuition fees at US universities and extraordinary costs of higher education in the US, I wonder why only a small number of students are going to study in old Europe: no tuition fees in a lot of countries; good universities all around; no necessity to master the local language perfectly as there are a lot of programs with English as the language of instruction; many locations with relatively low costs of living (you can easily master your life with $800-$1000 a month in many areas/cities in Europe with very good universities); a thriving student life
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#6I wonder if the guy who wrote this went to college himself...
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#7Over-generalizations like this are as predictable as they are annoying.
Sure, it makes sense for some people to skip college. And maybe someone could even make the case that most people would be better off abstaining from higher education.
But what if you want to be a researcher? A scientist? Someone working on the outer boundaries of knowledge in some particular discipline? Self-study is all very well and good, but for most of the empirical sciences, to make an impact you are going to need experiences and credentials that can only be acquired in a university setting.
Money isn't everything.
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#8every time I read about the high tuition fees at US universities and extraordinary costs of higher education in the US, I wonder why only a small number of students are going to study in old Europe: no tuition fees in a lot of countries; good universities all around; no necessity to master the local language perfectly as there are a lot of programs with English as the language of instruction; many locations with rela…
Distance from parents is probably a big one; worry about emergency situations while separated is another. After that, accreditation, I guess.
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#9every time I read about the high tuition fees at US universities and extraordinary costs of higher education in the US, I wonder why only a small number of students are going to study in old Europe: no tuition fees in a lot of countries; good universities all around; no necessity to master the local language perfectly as there are a lot of programs with English as the language of instruction; many locations with rela…
Simple: financial aid. As US citizens, if we qualify, we can attain federal financial aid and scholarships, thus lowering our overall cost of attending college significantly; sometimes lowering it so much as to be free, or nearly free.
The same is not true if we attend a foreign institution.
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#10Isn't anyone else tired of articles that are completely useless to anyone outside the US?
I'm fine with political insights, drug/weapons/abortion/religion debates or US breakthroughs, but articles about ways around student loans and rankings of cellphone carriers just go WHOOSH over me.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I wish there was an [US] tag for this type of content.