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Originally posted by tabs
Education will always be worth the outlay. If education is equated as gaining knowledge.
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That's a laugh, and definitively shows a generation gap between some romantic idea of education and stark reality.
When I received my Masters degree, I was distinctly told by three professors in my department to not pursue a Phd. They said: "It'll cost too much initially, and you'll never get paid your value." That was ten years ago.
I know a professor in the Physics Department at USC - he has Phd graduates working under him for $18,000 a year. Ridiculous! People who can figure out secrets of The Universe and can teach those secrets, but making $18K yearly.
No child left behind, huh? Does that apply to kids about to embark on a $100,000 bachelors degree, if they can afford it, which most cannot. Or a grad student having canned beans for dinner -- again tonight? Why is that the case when he or she can outthink most of the planet? Is it because they didn't receive a degree in some "hip" and "wanted" major like Law or Business?
It seems in this country, higher education is losing its value on a semester-by-semester basis.