I agree with you.

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We have been telling our kids that there are many career options out there and most of them do not require expensive out of date college degrees or certificates…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.

As Jack Spirko always recommends, have them learn a trade. They'll be able to apply it much better than any college degree. Trade schools would be much better as higher education than any college or university, with some exceptions.

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SDCdQcnKuQ

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. ...

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Maybe, but the experiences and friends I made in college last forever. I don't think it's necessary to be successful, but it also doesn't prevent someone smart from living up to their potential. Your kids should decide.

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

College is overpriced kindergarten for making your kids woke and turning them into broke, debt ridden communists when they eventually hit the graduate job apocalypse... say no. Checkout "The Preparation" it is a newly published book, I bought it for my nephew, its " a field manual for young men ...

Put your foot down for no. And if the kids themselves absolutely want to go and get brainwashed, let them pay for it. The only alternative would be some kind of online university where the damage might be less. Maybe there is a unicorn country out there where the university people are still normal...

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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....

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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