Public Perception of Higher Education is Shifting Negatively
“Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?”
More people are realizing that the price of tuition is too high and does not guarantee anything in terms of a job.
The Editorial Board at the New York Post:
Americans are rightly waking up — much of higher education is now a scam
More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people.
A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.”
That’s up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.”
That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: “Upwardly mobile” was almost entirely synonymous with “college educated.”
But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing . . . except onerous debt.
Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased “help” such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans.
But in return for 70 grand or more a year, students today too often don’t get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career.
Countless colleges have transformed into woke indoctrination factories that churn out grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.
A report last year found that two-thirds of colleges require DEI-related courses to graduate, offering classes like “Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society” and “Abolition of Whiteness.”
Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?
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Most people with an iQ above room temperature have realized that COVID was not just a scam (of the highest order), but a well-realized effort by the U.S. government to control the masses (by any means possible).
A very high percentage of “most people” also realize that 4-year undergraduate college (curricula and tuition schemes well controlled by government entities) is just another scam.
Worse, even if you honestly graduate with the l33t job skills, the l33t job will go to a furriner who will work for 50% of what you will.
It’s not higher education, it’s higher indoctrination.