Why is college necessary?

Ok I know why its necessary, job security and employers a lot of times won't consider someone without a college degree, yada yada yada. BUT, I feel like high school and the past 12-13 years of education were a waste. Why don't they count? Its just frustrating.





College is a necessity, so I just wonder sometimes if one day getting a master's will be a necessity. A lot of the general coursese like intro to Algebra, English composition, are similar to the same classes that I took in high school. Its like they make you take the same stuff over again.





I'm going back because I'm really tired of working minimum wage.I think colleges these days aren't about education, but a business. Sometimes people laugh at for-profit colleges, but aren't all colleges for profit. Come on. You know. I just don't think its fair for the word to consider me an idiot as if I haven't had any education the past 12 years.So "the man" made college a "necessity" and told us everything we learned is garbage. Ugh.

Why is college necessary?
i'm agree with you...


one thing that i hate from this "school education" is all of our skills and our talents are being scored by numbers. This is not good, coz when we get bad score then we usually get frustrated, isn't it silly "getting frustrated BY NUMBERS"? and we think that we're kinda stupid. While the truth is : everyone has different talents and those talents are too precious to be scored by numbers.
Reply:It's not necessary but it really helps. And a lot of your education is WHO you meet while in school..
Reply:It depends on your major. If you pick a solid major, you can learn applicable skills in the classroom. If you major in something like Art History you shouldn't expect to make a whole lot of money (and save me the anecdotal BS people) right out of school. If you want to make more money then you will either have to get a professional degree or experience while you are in school.





At a minimum an UG degree shows an employer you have enough intelligence, commitment and focus to finish something. You get out of your college experience whatever you put into it. If you go into it treating it like a joke, then that is what your degree will be. A joke. If you take it seriously, then you will get a serious degree that means something.





UG is a unique experience in that you get to choose what you learn about. Take advatnage of it.
Reply:It's a fast-paced world out there, and expectations are on the rise for well-qualified candidates for different jobs in advancing fields such as technology and healthcare. Many teachers I had in high school had the notion of "preparing" us all for the college environment. Our K-12 education is very broad and unspecified. Simply knowing your ABC's and 123's isn't good enough for alot of employers. The reason why many high school drop-outs make minimum wage with terrible benefits is becuase they are not specialized enough...
Reply:College is not necessary, it may be more appropriate for some people then others. The education that you have recieved in your primary schooling is enough to live with.


College greatly expands on that education, and allows you to profoundly affect the world you live in.


You can get a great job with Job Security galore, make good money, and have a future without going to college, just look at the other options before you decide that college is or isn't for you. Plenty of people go to college and end up doing something completly different than what they schooled themselves for. Be sure of your choices before you make them.
Reply:The don't count because high school is an all-day babysitter for kids so that you don't get in trouble. They teach you a LITTLE bit of something new every semester and review the last 3 years the rest of the time. You've obviously learned more than you realize you have-- your punctuation and critical thinking skills are fine.


The lame courses are there because part of having a degree is having the patience and committment to follow through on the 2 years worth of classes that you feel like you've already taken and finding a direction for yourself by trying new things in the first 2 years.





Education IS about being or not being an idiot -- if you're as smart as you think you are, then you'll go back and do it, realizing that you're not advancing and it sounds like you HAVE figured it out.
Reply:College is a necessary evil these days before most jobs worth having require at least a college degree. If you're thinking about going beyond college, that's when you'll have to weigh all factors.