My primary argument against college is mostly money at this point. The alternatives are so much cheaper in comparison to traditional college (both to produce and consume). The difference-in-quality argument is weaker and weaker.
I don't think free college for everyone fixes this either. It's like trying to solve the transportation problem by buying everyone ferraris. Free college is only good for colleges.
College is just a bad deal. A lot of people already realize this, but the idea of going to college if you care about your career at all is very firmly entrenched. 10-20 years from now, we'll look back at this period of going into debt just to get an education as being super weird and counterproductive. The people pushing the idea that this is somehow a good deal, very respectable people from respectable institutions, will be viewed as sub-prime pushers.
Way OT: Student debt, the war on drugs, prison, and medicine. These are the (US-centric) areas off the top of my head where people in the future will be like "what were they thinking?"
My primary argument against college is mostly money at this point. The alternatives are so much cheaper in comparison to traditional college (both to produce and consume). The difference-in-quality argument is weaker and weaker.
I don't think free college for everyone fixes this either. It's like trying to solve the transportation problem by buying everyone ferraris. Free college is only good for colleges.
College is just a bad deal. A lot of people already realize this, but the idea of going to college if you care about your career at all is very firmly entrenched. 10-20 years from now, we'll look back at this period of going into debt just to get an education as being super weird and counterproductive. The people pushing the idea that this is somehow a good deal, very respectable people from respectable institutions, will be viewed as sub-prime pushers.
Way OT: Student debt, the war on drugs, prison, and medicine. These are the (US-centric) areas off the top of my head where people in the future will be like "what were they thinking?"