Are Too Many People Going to College?

This guy comes up a lot on this blog ... I question some of his motives but I think he is spot on when it comes to this observation.

People need to work to their gifts period. If it requires a degree go ... otherwise do what you are good at and like.

Many of the people I know who work in my field went to school with the express purpose of getting a piece of paper that would get them a job that paid well. PAY is the motivation ... they don't love the work. They don't have a gift. They want to get PAID. Colleges encourage this because they want high-dollar donors. I have seen graduates in IT that have no business with degrees. They are grossly unequipped for the work force and I am not sure how they managed to get through four years at any university much less some of the ones they claim to come from.

Also I think a college education is greatly overvalued by our society. Your dignity is not defined by the letters after your name (or your paycheck for that matter) ... I think college should be harder and I think fewer people should go. I think we need to weed out the pretenders angling for pay only and we need to actually not pay people with degrees more than they are worth just because it happens to be a field requiring a degree. We should encourage people to go into other respectable careers and foster a lifestyle of learning if we want more educated people.

America needs more manufacturing jobs. America needs people who do actual physical work. There is no shame in that kind of work. Economies function on the backs of that work.