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Are We Throwing Our Money Away?

Are we mindlessly throwing our money out to colleges to better educate our children, or so we think. A new issue has come up that out children are not getting our moneys worth out of college. They typically go to class for four years, but is the money really worth what they come out with or is college just a day care for young adults. Too many students go to college just because it is what every one says to do, not what they truly feel is right for them.
Public-relations specialist and writer Caroline Bird wrote an essay in which she talks about how too many college students are just in school because their parents make them, or that is what every one has always told them they need to do. Bird talks about how students go to school to just try to improve their paychecks instead of actually going to school to educate them selves. Another point bird makes is college is just working to keep our young adults out of the mainstream of the job market because they are not as desired...

Posted by: William Katz

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