As people complain that college education in American is too expensive, this New York Times article argues that it's still worth it.
The Hamilton Project, a research group in Washington, has just finished a comparison of college with other investments. It found that college tuition in recent decades has delivered an inflation-adjusted annual return of more than 15 percent. For stocks, the historical return is 7 percent. For real estate, it's less than 1 percent.America has the most expensive college education followed by Korea, a very distant second. In Korea, students are protesting pretty loudly about the increasing costs...
In America, certain degrees are worth more than others. Colleges argue that a liberal arts education is a good investment but pretty much everyone in the real world would agree that as an investment you're better off with any of the following:
-Business (Accounting/Finance)
-Computers/IT
-Math/Stats
-Engineering
-Health Sciences
Some people argue that going to college is a waste of time and money until you know what you want to do. If you decide on a certain career (and 18 is often too young to decide) then you see if a college degree is required and you go get the right education.
What do you think about the value of a college education and its value as an investment?
Here's a language sample from a native speaker you may want to study:
I was a History Major. If I had some guidance 20 years ago, I would have taken a different route and probably had a much different, more accelerated career path. Unless you are teaching or looking at a career in academia, what purpose do liberal arts degrees serve? I ended up going back to school 2 times, once for a certificate program in computer programming back before the Y2K boom and then for an MBA. Each was necessary, I felt, because my BA in History wasn't going to take me very far.
We know school rules disallow students from defending themselves against other students. What about teachers? Should they be allowed to defend themselves?
The student who defends himself or herself probably faces a few days off from school as in the Australian bully case. A teacher who was recently cornered by a student, physically and verbally threatened, and threw a nice punch for a 64-year-old art teacher might lose her job. Does she deserve to get fired? Does it matter she was teacher of the year last year? That she has been teaching for 23 years with no trouble?
Did the kid who got punched deserve to get expelled (he didn't get expelled so far as I know but many people think he should be)? Not only did he physically threaten the teacher, but he also called her an "f*cking c*nt" plus other choice terms.
And what about the student who says, "Oh my God, he didn't do anything; you can't punch him in the face." Some people think her attitude is one of the problems in American schools today - kids can do whatever they want, threaten teachers, etc. And teachers should do nothing about it.
What do you think?