Comments on: Don’t Send Your Kids to College

By: Nospeaka Englisha

Nospeaka Englisha — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:36:00 +0000

Your obviously liberal. College does not teach morals and socialism/communism do not teach respect for individuals.

By: Walter Kamphoefner

Walter Kamphoefner — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:25:00 +0000

So if you don’t go to college you don’t need to eat and can live under a bridge? Some of the $104 K is money you would spend anyway, and you probably wouldn’t be living without a car with two people in a 12 x 15 room like my daughter is at a state university.
So a guy with these kind of logical fallacies is giving investment advice? Caveat emptor!

By: Savana

Savana — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:40:00 +0000

I’m really hopin this is a satire–either way, none of these statistics are even remotely correct

By: fitsa

fitsa — Wed, 21 May 2014 11:58:00 +0000

You did not read the last part of what he said. Please don’t just reread it but internalize it

By: Chinatown

Chinatown — Wed, 07 May 2014 02:51:00 +0000

There are already 1.5 billion people speaking Mandarin. Millions of those people study at universities and become first-class scientists and engineers who get top-paying exciting and rewarding jobs both in China and abroad. How’s that a “scam”? How do you compete with that if not through getting a good education?

By: shadowguy14

shadowguy14 — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:58:00 +0000

They are my only hope IF I go to college.

By: sergeant1

sergeant1 — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:52:00 +0000

There are tens of thousands of millionaires and many billionaires who never finished college. In my life, I’ve met thousands of people from all walks of life, and some of the most financially successful never went to college: those in the building trades, real estate speculators, corporate security, and various entrepreneurs who created lucrative businesses from nothing.

I started college after I retired from the NYPD. And even though I was working full time, helping to raise a family, performing duty in the military reserves, and maintaining two houses, my final GPA in the bachelor/masters program was 3.92. I’m not patting myself on the back. The point is, that if I had gone to college when I was 18 – when I had no responsibilities – I would have flunked out. The difference can be explained simply: 25 years of life experiences and obligations forced me to grow up and reach a modicum of maturity. Of course, you don’t have to wait 25 years, but a couple of years in the real world before college would help you decide what you want to do in life, and if college will help you get there.

One of my sons joined the NROTC to go to a college we couldn’t afford. He told me that learned more by his experiences in the Navy than he could ever learn in a lifetime of schooling. And, of course, he doesn’t have the burden of loans to pay off.

After high school, take two or three years to find yourself. You can join the military, and they will help you pay for college, and even teach you a skill that can jump-start a career. Drive a truck (a successful attorney acquaintance of mine did that to pay for law school), or a cab (another friend did that after HS and now owns three NYC medallion cabs – two such medallions just sold for one million apiece), work in a supermarket, do construction work, work in retail, be a pizza deliverer — anything to help you experience life and mature. You might actually find something you love to do, and then you can decide if further schooling will help you reach your success.

Of course, the definition of success is purely subjective. Sweden, which has one of the highest standards of living in the world and where everything is “free” — education, sex, health care, etc. — has one of the highest rates of suicide. In Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, suicide is unheard of.

Success in life means different things to different people. Financial success doesn’t mean you will attain happiness. And, after all, isn’t that what we’re all after?

By: Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:42:00 +0000

Your reason for sharing with the world to not go to college because of money? Correct me if I am worng. But you whole argument is based on the fact that those who attend college are in debt. How many of those peole who are in debt due to college or a higher education regret it? As a high school senior I look at college as furthering my education. I know how much college cost and most likely will put me in debt. I see college as an oportunity to vast my knowledge and deepend my education. You say “Don’t send your kid to college” and when your child is all grown up and have children of their own and they say “Don’t send your kid to college” and so on ans so forth. what happens when no one is educated? what happens when our world is run by uneducated people??????????

By: dagny

dagny — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:21:00 +0000

Yep. Unfortunately, as long as we choose to work for someone else, they want the degree. Even in MA, MacDonald’s now advertises for help saying “college degree required”. How about that one?

By: dissatisfied

dissatisfied — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:55:00 +0000

Agreed. I went to a university for more than 4 years and they kept on and on raising the rates with my hard-earned (and everyone else’s) hard earned money winding up in the wrong hands. I have a degree and still unable to find a job due to my major and I felt that my college did not prepare me properly with the lack of moral standards. It’s sad to say that without moral ethics, it’s hard to find a job and I’m shamed that my college failed to help me and other students properly mature for jobs.