The reason why college is getting so expensive (more than before!!)...

What? I'm confused; what did you think I was talking about? And what do you mean by "need", here?

 

Yup. 0.005% of your educational establishments are "excellent".

Raising you overall to 14th in the world.

 

The ranking you give is K-12. We are average at being average. I'm talking about higher education, which obvious we lead the world in just like every thing else.

 

I have a parrot that speaks Spanish. It does not make our birdlife exceptional.

 

College in the US is more expensive because state governments are cutting the education budget, so the Colleges have to hike tuition to replace lost funding.

It's sad there's no more money, out society is collapsing, and soon only the rich can afford education. It's brain-drain time for the USA.

 

It's very terrible indeed.

 

Private education should always remain for the rich and the extremely talented (scholarships). Do not dumb down private schools for fairness. I love elitism... keep some semblance of it in society.

I am always a fan of college being expensive and weeding out those that can't afford it. If they are smart enough they can go out work for a year or two, build up enough money then go to college. College should not be an extension of high school... it should separate the most driven and talented from the rest of the country (in terms of specialized education).

 

While I agree with you to some extent, because I wouldn't change for the world the North-eastern US, science-heavy, +$10,000 Associates Degree, that took me almost 10 years of work to get...

Do we really want tuition costs to just rise and rise over the years while wages stay stagnant?

 

Sorry, but college has become an extension of high school. So many entry level jobs now require a college degree that to get ahead without one has the same odds as winning the lottery.

The days of a college degree being an entry to the elite have been long over. Only wealth counts now.

 

It shouldn't be like that, though. You should not require a college degree to do many of the (frankly) fairly low or medium skill-requiring jobs that seem to require a college degree, these days.

Colleges are increasingly developing a monopoly over this country.

 

I agree, but that is the way of things. Economically it is a disaster as it has created a massive transfer of wealth into a wasteful and inefficient purpose. Many from the lower and middle class are now basically required to start their adult life with a huge debt burden which, given the long term stagnation in median wage, greatly delays economic development as they delay marriage and children, the buying of new cars and new houses and all the things that go with that.

The diversion of so much of the national income into secondary education has been extremely detrimental to economic growth. Turning education into a vehicle for the transfer of future income from the lower classes to the investors who finance student loans is nothing less a recipe for economic disaster in an economy dependent on increasing consumer spending.

 

"Higher Education" is a bubble that has burst. All the people that believed that a college education is necessary for a career are in debt up to their necks and have to become indentured servants for the rest or their lives, working at McDonalds.

 

That's obviously absurd because a lot of college educated people have high paying jobs? In fact, college educated people are more likely than non-college educated people to have jobs?

What the Hell are you even babbling about?

Now, I will say that it SHOULDN'T be a requirement imposed by DA*M employers to have a college degree in order to have certain careers, but it is.