The College Board says the average cost of a 4 year education is still like $5-7000 a year. The maroons going to the $30k schools are doing so for the big name, not the big education.
I went to Fitchburg State College (now Fitchburg State University) in dumpy little Fitchburg, MA. I paid around about $40,000 for the whole 4 years including room and board. One of my friends went to Emerson at about the same time, paid around 2x what I did for basically the same education. Oh wait did I say the same education? Well half or more of his classes were taught by graduate students, zero of mine were. He didn't get to take any video production classes in his first year, I had 2. He didn't get to use a non-linear editing system until his 3rd year, I used one extensively in my second. I paid off my loans in 2004, 5 years ahead of schedule. The day I paid off my loan he and I worked together, doing the same job, for the same pay... Every time he made fun of "dumpy little Fitchburg" I reminded him that I'd already paid off my loans and nobody cares anymore where we went to school. -Curt Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:37:26 -0500 From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oh Wilton Message-ID: <m1vcp77vjt....@cs.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> writes: > College is becoming more the minimum, though a lot of the > matriculating students are barely high-school (or even 8th grade) > capable to participate in that kind of "knowledge"-based study. Not only that, but with everyone (or at least a lot more than in the past) going to college, the supply of people entering the workforce with at least some college is higher, thus lowering the value of having that education, while at the same time said education costs more than ever and many students are leaving college with significant debt. What's the position of the Occupy movement on the "greed" of "Big Ed" I wonder. Allan -- 1983 300D 1979 300SD _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
