I got a plumber out to unblock my jacks years ago and when chatting to him he told he had completed a degree in the classics. I asked him how he ended up being a plumber then and he said he’d always been a plumber but had studied classics in his 30s because he was very interested in it. Education can be its own reward and shouldn’t be viewed simply as producing fodder for industry.
Yep!
I do agree though that public money shouldn't be ploughed into useless degrees.
People should be paying for college. It’s the same middle class kids going to college today as did when proper fees were in place, but now they have the readies to go on four month jollies abroad every summer. I grew up with a lot of those kinda people and we all would’ve gone to college whether there were fees or not, but there are few things more difficult to reverse in this world than middle class entitlements (according to Thomas Sowell anyway).
Hey, if it's on the table I'd say no public money for anything. Withdrawing public money for curiosity degrees is a compromise.
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