Reply #47: If you re-read your post-- you start off with the issue of salary--

[Malikshah]

that is the standard line of the enemies to education. Be a bit more self-aware on that issue and you'd see it. As for going into debt in order to pursue education for the sake of education than, again, you are not getting it.

It is not education for education's sake. That mindset focuses on the extrinsic value of education-- think vending machine. You put your money in and get something in return. This is something that those in the academy rail against on a daily basis (at least the scholars--admin folk are all about this mindset)


Rather than focus on the extrinsic value-- students going to University need to focus on the intrinsic value of their education. The skills they learn, the life-experiences they have (no, I'm not talking about the stereotypes of student "life-experiences"), the expanding of their worlds both literally and figuratively. In other words, the journey is what they take from their liberal arts education and the rich potential it has for them. If they just take classes as carbon-based life forms and "punch the clock," then they have wasted their money-- and yet you are trying to blame the universities for this??

As for the workload being germane to the topic-- damn straight it is when someone starts off with talking about salaries, etc.

As for people demanding that the poor take on debt-- no one is demanding anyone do anything in that regard. You make of your degree what you make of it. You take on what you can handle with a purpose in mind.