We hear about student loan debt, we hear about gainful
employment, we here about college educated folks working in restaurants, and I
could go on. However, do you truly believe that going to college equates not
being successful in the work place?
“If college were easy, everyone would do it”; college has
always been reserved for the elite and wealthy, with the occasional charity
case thrown in. Name one politician without a college degree, name a president without
one, or how about a fortune 500 CEO or president who tell you not to go to
college.
Do not equate bad economic times with education being
useless: it does not add up. The people who are suffering by scale the most are
those without an education.
“Stop Scaring Students”
“It is high school graduation time, and some columnists here in
California and nationally, in platforms such as Forbes
and U.S.
News & World Report, seem to be heralding in the season by carrying
articles questioning the value of a college education. They report record
unemployment levels among recent college graduates as the rationale for
pursuing a trade right out of high school rather than pursuing a college degree”.
“What such articles fail to report is that the best insurance
against unemployment is a college degree. A review of Bureau
of Labor Statistics data tracing educational attainment and unemployment
for all recessions since 1981 suggests that adults with a college education
were twice as likely to be employed as those who had earned only a high school
diploma. The logical claim is that education is an investment that pays off”.
Until you can show quantifiable evidence, that education is not
useful, please stay silent.
Dr Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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