http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/05/12/who-needs-college Comments On: Who needs college? by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Sorry if the fact I am an on-time college graduate from a top 40 lib arts school (meaningless, really) generates an overwhelming amount of cognitive dissonance and violates many of your cherished caricatures of the educational and intellectual profiles of those with whom you fundamentally disagree with.

The good news for you is that they do have therapy for those type of problems.
Posted by West Little Rock]]> Fri, 13 May 2011 05:48:35 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by dottholliday]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 21:29:58 -0500 Arkansas Times
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Posted by SocialistArkie]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 18:05:13 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 15:45:17 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Somewhere in the middle]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 15:41:27 -0500 Arkansas Times
This who thing is a mess. Next up, all Burger King managers will be required to hold an MBA!
Posted by Somewhere in the middle]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 14:29:15 -0500 Arkansas Times If students are not allowed to default on student loans then how is a crisis in the making?

You simply cannot walk away from a student loan like an underwater house. Mz Blanche even fixed it so that those who do default on student loans can have their Soc Security checks garnished.


Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 14:11:49 -0500 Arkansas Times There are plenty of manufacturing jobs where one does need an associate's degree.
I was reading an article about some manufacturers not being able to fill positions because the people applying didn't have the skills needed.
I'm with you vigilantejustice, we need to increase the cost of outsourcing.
Posted by SocialistArkie]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 12:16:01 -0500 Arkansas Times
One thing is for sure ( other than death and taxes ) and that's student loan debt. If you take out college loans you better be able to pay them back quickly. Even if your chosen career path results in an income needed to pay them back later than sooner.

Else, the accumulating interest of deferments will be a financially ruinous ball and chain for the rest of your life till death do you part.

There are plenty of repayment programs, but not one considers your payment based on your income vs lon balance. Every repay program is based on your proximity to the poverty line.
Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 11:59:42 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Pavel Korchagin]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 11:44:34 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Snapback]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 11:31:33 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Somewhere in the middle]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 11:16:09 -0500 Arkansas Times Certainly that's not the case in such areas as the sciences and medicine, accounting or math (yech!), history or languages, and, no doubt others I haven't considered.
Now probably one of the most popular courses of study, seeking a business degree? What, to decide to eliminate hundreds of products from Wal-Mart shelves to concentrate shelf space on a few of the best selling products, or most remunerative, only to have to backtrack in short order? To eliminate their fabric departments, only to start stocking a line of sewing machines?
On the other hand, I'd say the most neglected course of study is geography. No, not just the study of the existence of world's countries, or the states and their capitals. Yes, that’s part of it, but just physical geography is much more encompassing, touching upon such things as climate, its historical changes and subsequent evolving land use. You can study agricultural practices from slash and burn to our modern factory farms. Do you know, for example, that our overuse of weed killers has resulted in a field killing layer of residue, similar to a salt layer, being formed inches below some modern fields?
That doesn’t even begin to touch upon the human aspects of the subject from politics to economics to our inter-relationships with each other and with the environment. And much, much more.
Sigh. I wonder what our political landscape would look like if geography were more strongly emphasized in schools.
Okay, that’s my quota of soapboxing for the day.
Although history, with an appropriate emphasis on civics …
Posted by Doigotta]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 11:14:09 -0500 Arkansas Times
I have gotten to where I only hire those with degrees, except for WH where I require some college.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 10:51:31 -0500 Arkansas Times
BRING BACK THE FACTORIES. Stop with this 'those jobs are gone and they aren't coming back' bs. Make the cost of outsourcing so high that it is no longer lucrative to seek out of country slave labor. If they want to bring in slave made products, there should be a tariff on it the size of a C-130. The jobs will come back pretty fast when these greedy bastards realize that they won't be able to sell in THE MOST ROBUST MARKET IN THE WORLD if they don't do something to keep the market alive. You know, like keep the middle class in tact.
Posted by Somewhere in the middle]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 10:43:13 -0500 Arkansas Times If I wasn't afraid of the statistic that 50% of all small businesses fail, I'd probably venture out into entrepreneurship but I'm not fond of taking risks like that.
We still need engineers, scientists, doctors, nurses, etc. so there will always be a need for higher education.
Posted by SocialistArkie]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 10:35:32 -0500 Arkansas Times
If I want a car, then I'll take the high school drop out who may not be a science expert but understands cars. Plumbers, I want them to have worked as a helper in an apprentice program.

If you want to be the leader of the world, then you better know how to evaluate people because you hopefully can hire the properly-educated people to keep your a-- out of jail and not kill anyone. My management philosophy was to hire the best managers I would find, who knew even more than me in their area, and then get out of their way and let them do their work.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 09:59:50 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 09:53:35 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by freethrow]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 09:39:13 -0500 Arkansas Times
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There is other competition out there, so let's make our vote count for the Arkansas Blog. Max and the others on this blog are the greatest in the country. Thanks for all your hard work!
Posted by mythoughts]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 09:23:24 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 09:06:47 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by HolyGuano]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 09:02:56 -0500 Arkansas Times
But seriously, I'm not sure I've read a better article all year than this one about the Higher Education Bubble in America. Having attended and graduated from a $30,000+/yr school (and feel it was mostly a waste), it really is quite on point about the problem of what American kids and their parents are being sold by Colleges and Universities like the one I attended.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thi…
Posted by West Little Rock]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 08:58:43 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Archaeopteryx]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 08:40:16 -0500 Arkansas Times
High school is more of a maturation process/procedure where academics has the lowest priority of all the school day activities and college is a very expensive venture in to a world where such priorities are flip-flopped and which only 42 % of attendees are able to do the priority reversal enough to graduate.
Posted by Cato]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 08:39:13 -0500 Arkansas Times