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So after you've spent years and lots of money on yourself and your kids to pay for college, I'm going to dare to tell you that college education is America's most overrated product? Of course you're going to want to disagree with me.
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As a society, we place too much importance on "education", ... A college degree is overrated at best. Most true learning that does take place at college is on the students' own time. While some professors may offer question and answer times, most lecture during class and expect the students to manage their incomprehension...
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By MARTY NEMKO ... Among my saddest moments as a career counselor is when I hear a story like this: "I wasn't a good student in high school, but I wanted to prove that I can get a college diploma. I'd be the first one in my family to do it. ... I have a hard time telling such people the killer statistic: Among high-school...
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For example, a University education is not overrated when it comes to training scientists, engineers and health professionals. It is overrated when people suggest that your life has no meaning unless you went to University.
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Web site of the Lodi News-Sentinel. ... "Depends on what kind of career you're getting into. A college education really is important, though." ... "Yes and no. The right college education is not overrated. But community college is so easy to get into these days that it doesn't matter.
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Education... overrated or underrated? General Chat ... do I think education is overrated?...no...I can't stand people that have no common sense of decency as well as those who lack the skills to carry on an interesting conversation ; do i think college is overrated?
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"Education" - guided learning - might serve any or all of many purposes within a society: communicating and reinforcing social norms and institutions, transmitting religious or other ideological orthodoxies, legitimating existing power structures, requiting a desire for an understanding of the world through the study...
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Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in the region. ... We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that in many countries education, by itself, has a positive, but limited, potential to increase...
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What must be done to improve undergraduate education? ... I have a hard time telling such people the killer statistic: According to the U.S. Department of Education, despite colleges having dumbed-down classes to accommodate to the weak students, among college freshmen who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their...
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