8 alternatives to college

college As the value of higher education continues to decline, these are some great alternatives: Start a business, travel the world, create art, make people laugh, write a book, work for a charity, master a game, master a sport. Splendid!

—February 1, 2011

3 Comments

David

Feb 1, 2011 at 12:21 pm

You forgot “Live at home with mom & dad and play video games all day.”

Miguel Angel Tinoco rodriguez

Feb 9, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Are you related to Einstein Mr. uSuir? If you are; what a disappointment? You do not know what you are missing out. Perhaps going to college would help.

This man is money in our pockets centered and he is looking at the negative evil reports and banking at failure of others. He is computing the negative data and not the positive results of the very same study he is using. If 45% of students are learning next to nothing it means that 55% are learning somewhat. And if 36% are learning almost nothing, which means that 64% are at least learning something.

Most if not all of the world businesses, science, technology and also statistics that we enjoy everyday is as a result of educated persons going beyond the frontiers of ignorance in a competitive setting. Who wants to learn about a study about “academically adrift” anyway? I want to learn about Academic Excellence. Please think fellows, if you look at the results of this very same study as stated. “Most college students learn next to nothing” It is FALSE. Basic math says that it is impossible for 45% or even a 35% of anything represents a majority of something. It is mathematically impossible unless you are an totally incompetent.

“More recently, a report based on the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses found that after two years of college, 45% of students learned little to nothing. After four years, 36% of students learned almost nothing. (See: Brain Drain: Most College Students Learn Next to Nothing, New Study Says…”

I have not been to college that much, yet I have never stopped studying or learning. And despite the increasing cost of education, drawbacks, obstacles, and competence, a college education is still one of my yet to accomplish dreams. For, if, some if us have accomplished a great many things without a college education, one can only figure or wonder what I would accomplish with one? This guy needs to go to college to discover what he is missing and what he truly could have contributed to society.

Money in our pockets is not the only good reason to go to college. Having said this and that, have ten thousand reasons to go to college and eight not to go. It does not take a genius to find out what is more expensive if knowing or not knowing. This is what a prophet of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord himself had had to say with regards to this issue.

“Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.”

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 130:19)

“Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand; Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms— That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you.”

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:77 – 80)

Blake

Feb 9, 2011 at 12:23 pm

@Miguel. The important thing is to educate yourself constantly, whether by formal education, personal study, reading, acquiring new skill sets, or laser focusing your interest into one passion. The problem is most people choose formal education by default, rather than truly pursuing education.

Blake Snow

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