Reply #55: What's his reasoning?

[mahina]

Is it that kids don't appreciate what they are handed without work?
Or that he did it himself in a different economy with a totally different wage rate to tuition ratio? Or that he just doesn't think college is necessary?
I have friends who think all those things. I agree with #1. Kids never do appreciate what they are given. But so what? They will never appreciate much of what we do to raise them, till they have their own. I will still give it anyway if I possibly can, for purely pragmatic reasons.
He will earn more money and be better able to support himself and his kids and wife (God willing) the better educated he is. Period.
You can spend the same money on a car and in 10 years its worthless. Spend it on an education and it pays you back for your lifetime and your kids and thier kids.
Did you know that the single thing we can do to increase the quality of life for poor communities is educate the women?
There is a reason those taliban assholes are against it. We have our own taliban here too dammit!
Good luck, God bless...