How Important Is Education?

[blxck]

Is it really a need to spent such an amount of money on college today?

[Neveracrossword]

No.

[Neveracrossword]

That was to the second part of your question. Education is, of course, very important.

[Tilly2]

Maybe.

[-Talbot-]

We don't need education

[kvalidir]

We don't need no thought control... :)

[Prudie]

Come on, no dark sarcasm people!

[Cloverjo]

Education is important, but there's no need to spend three years racking up debt and emerging with the same class degree as everyone else. You can get a good job without it.

[andy-hughes]

Education is an essential aspect of the development of a civilised society.

The problem with our society is that we have recent governments who are utterly obsessed with the false notion that everyone wants and needs a university education. This means that vast amounts of money are poured wastefully into further education, and the third of students who drop out in their first term because university was an incorrect choice for them.

At the other end, there is a criminal paucity of proper funding for adequate nursery education, in order to rear a generation of citizens to understand the concepts of respect for themselves and each other, which would eventually eliminate the most serious social ills that dog our current existence.

It will never happen, because small children don't vote, so they don't matter.

[Baldric]

Going by some of the posts I see on here it is very important.

[fiction-factory]

Not really a debt though is it. If you don't get a well paid job there is no debt repayment needed. Just an extra tax in effect if you are lucky enough to get a good income. I do agree though that for many who go to university it's a waste of time

[douglas9401]

All you need to know is how to read, write, count and on what side your bread's buttered.

Anything more produces po-faced dorks who open every utterance with 'so' and grow crap beards or wear distressed clothes.

[Cloverjo]

I agree, f-f, even though I did bring up the debt thing.

Almost everyone gets a 2:1 or First nowadays. It's becoming meaningless.

[TonyV]

Way back when I was apprentice and did I day and evening at local college (now rebranded as a university)
Deal with my employer was that they paid fees if I passed otherwise potentially I would footing the bill. Needless to say that was incentive enough for me to get an ONC and HNC.

[jno]

[i]Almost everyone gets a 2:1 or First nowadays[i]

then that's not meaningless, Cloverjo, its the default standard you have to keep up with. If everyone but you has a 2:1, it gets that much harder to get a good job against better educated competition.

Sure, some employers won't mind; and plenty of uneducated people (Branson, for instance) are sufficiently entrepreneurial not to need education. But unless you know when you leave school exactly what job you wamt and how to get it, I'd recommend getting as much education as you can afford.

[Canary42]

Education is absolutely essential. Funding is another matter altogether.

[jim360]

What, I wonder, is the point in education if those who have it are ignored in favour of those who merely sound good?

[TonyV]

Jim employment interviews are 50 / 50 on both sides. Potential Employee may give lots of bull shxt that is just that and employer may promise the earth then never deliver. I've seen it from both sides.

[AuntLydia]

Money spent on a good basic Education is like spending money on good foundations to build a house. Not everyone goes to college, apprenticeships are becoming once more quite popular, and although certain occupations need a degree its quite possible to have a well paid job with prospects having never set foot in a University.

[Old_Geezer]

Basic education is vital. Further education should be for those who can benefit themselves and society from receiving it. And more so for university level education. It should not simply be a way to avoid entering into employment for a few years, then moaning at the loan taken to do so.