There is so much unreal information and propaganda coming out about the value and the cost (always rising of course) of a college education. The real truth is that it is not as necessary as “they” would like us to think. In fact, it plays right into the hands of those elite that would have every parent pay the institutions that pay them thousands of dollars per child and also into those others who find it useful to win arguments against population and for birth control. This is why I decided to write the following:
Now for a quick reality check. My father grew up out of the Depression and helped to support his mother from an early age. Married during the WWII, he soon worked two jobs, all week long, to barely support his family. However, those of his six children who wanted to attend college did so. These children made it through cost of college and university on their own, through shear determination. One of the key factors of survival and making high grades was growing up before they attended. The girls worked and saved their money before college and the boys entered the Air Force first. None of them wasted their time or money at college on frivolous campus activities and they did not live there. They used the campus as a serious learning environment and learned quickly. One of them completed 4 years in 31/2 years, graduating with honors and a 4.0 average. But, the fact of the matter is that a college education is just another of the subtle tricks played on our modern societal minds. There is much more stability, usefulness, and longevity in learning one or several of the trades than in most college degrees. The trades demand as much thinking, logic, and lifetime acumen as sitting for hours listening to secular humanists espouse inane philosophies while wasting a ton of notebook paper for four plus years. You cannot argue that the mechanic who fixes my car does not make as much as the dentist who examines my teeth. My son’s piano teacher earns $90 a visit per student. The difference is that the trades can be learned through good old-fashion apprenticeship and you can earn, early on, at almost full pay, while you learn. What is better, you do not have to pay off the large loan you acquired trying to earn a sheepskin while behaving like sheep.
Michael Aprile
Music "in balance" with the heart beat
December 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
One of the benefits of college, though, is that it usually teaches one how to support their thesis. So… what’s the “real” cost of college? I’m going to guess it’s the attainment of any knowledge that dispells the ignorance your mythology needs to survive in the modern market-place of ideas. Perhaps that’s why you didn’t seem to finish the thought; because, when it’s put that way, it sounds a little stupid? Right?
Editor’s note: I have two college degrees, from a secular college, and I can witness that instead of dispelling mythologies, many were learned at those colleges. This was mainly because the Professor taught secular ideas and concepts passed down. I realized later that few of these Professors had bothered to question what was taught to them by their Professors. This was the only way they could maintain a good grade level. I graduated with a 4.0 GPA, by the way. As for the being acceptable to the “common market-place of ideas”, that sounds a bit like political correctness, which I will have nothing to do with. More important is to develop a correct worldview, which is not found in secular colleges today. Try the Bible. That is from where all true academic knowledge came in the first place. It gives you God knowledge rather than that of sinful man.