Obama's plans for College Tuition

[peace123]

Hi there,

This is the first time I have posted anything, but I just wanted to bring up the point that many of the people in previous generations didn't receive college degrees (let alone some not even finishing high school), but were very hard workers and ended up succeeding in whatever they chose to pursue (and they didn't ask for the government to help, either!). As someone in this thread brought up, education is not mentioned in the Bill of Rights, and I think too many people today expect the government to take care of them.

Also, politics aside, I want to thank all of those on InstantCert who have served our country to make it the free land that we have been blessed to live in. Let us pray that it will remain so!

Hi,

I agree previous generations did fine without degrees and I believe they were better educated. For example my grandfather- God rest his soul- ( who to this day remains the smartest man I ever met) only graduated from 6th grade.

After that he had to quit to help support the family.
Later he was drafted and fought in a war, he provided for his family by working in various factory jobs. Interestingly, I do not recall a time growing up where I did not see him reading a book.

Unfortunately, the days of getting a good job with a just a HS diploma are past or are passing quickly. When I graduated HS ( 25 years ago ) you only needed an associates degree, now minimum you need a BA degree and more and more the ads are saying Masters degree needed to apply. Also back then there was employer & employee loyalty, most likely you worked for one employer then you retired.

Also a few generations back you could survive on one income, now a days you need two incomes to survive.

Interesting to me how we are more educated but are finding it harder to make ends meet. Maybe this is why people are turning to the government for help with education. It is kinda a catch 22, you need a degree to get a good job but how do you get a job to pay for the degree, unless you can get a good job ( which requires a degree).

Since having a degree has become a requirement, if there is to be a future workforce to meet that requirement, then someone has to figure out a way for people to afford getting a degree. I am less concerned with this for the poor as there are programs in place. I am more concerned about the middle class, which is already maxed out just trying to pay for a home, insurance, groceries, etc.


I am all for going back to making a degree not a requirement for getting a good job, but it doesn't seem that will happen anytime soon. Perhaps we could shift from getting a degree, to more of an on the job training model.

Peace123