depends on the field

If they can find a good college it could be worth it. Not a trade school unless they want to be in the trades.

I agree with you. College is only good at turning out queer Marxist baffoons now, and even the hard sciences are being corrupted worse than they ever have been.

What do your kids want?

How do you become an engineer without a college degree? Genuine question. I don’t think that 90% of an undergrad engineering education is necessary to learn how to be an engineer, but at the same time, every single entry level engineering position requires a degree.

100% correct in my opinion… We have been telling our kids that there are many career options out there and most of them do not require expensive out of date college degrees or certificates…

Traditional forms of education are basically obsolete now

I suspect that you and your wife hold a view that the college educational system will still have a compelling reason to exist in 5-7 years time.

Just tell her theres no point with general intelligence around the corner

It depends on the field. If they are doing something that doesn't require specialized resources, then its not necessary. However, if we're talking about disciplines like material science, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, bioscience where the cost of building and training someone is depende...

Compromise (ish) with a gap year

I think it’s best to look at it as an investment. If you can get a bachelors degree for less than $10k in a field with good career prospects, it’s probably worth it. But if you’re spending $10k a semester and don’t have a very specific aim, you’re going to waste a TON of money. However...

Waste of time & money. I have three grown kids. Youngest is 16 Both of my older got 3 year degrees. Business mgmt and construction mgmt Neither of them needed those degrees to get their current jobs. —My youngest (16) will assume a mgmt roll with his current tenure not a bullshit certification. ...

https://youtube.com/shorts/b4e0Wpn878Q?si=eMI7ik0edrjQ_LB2

Home school… what does any child really need to learn first life? Read Write Maths And meditation Everything else should be optional and guided by their own interests and passions

"Send your child to Rome and he will come back a Roman." That said, there are still some no-government-funded colleges that provide good and affordable education without the indoctrination. My oldest took a gap year to finish her Japanese Language Proficiency Test certification. During that year, s...

Kids will learn more from home schooling than anything from school urgh. Just ask nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxw309a6k6cnjv4kzumr0vdskcw358q6rsqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsxwhevn for his thoughts on this. He was home schooled.

100%, what they learn there is already outdated today, how will it serve them tomorrow. https://fountain.fm/show/0cjwJbTn6z3lPXNX8ISg

Mostly… unless you can find a really genuinely human focused education, forming the whole person. Community.. I know of a few really good Catholic colleges.. a few, out of hundreds that used to be perhaps when the boomers went, but were gutted, and continue to be gutted by secular, hive mind, rot....

Trades and skilled workers is what the future will need to many book smart people already with AI making them obsolete and they have absolutely no practical skills just saying something to into

This is 100% two. Whole bunch of useless subjects there. Better to do homeschooling.