1. Are you talking about education or training? 2. Based on twenty years of teaching college freshman at “Frodo” and a less than “elite” regional university, I can’t help but note the high % of students who are trying to to afford college by working 20 to 30 hours a week and carry a full academic load. Do I have worthless jack offs in my classes? Yes. But most seem to me to be making a serious effort. I would add that I averaged more jerks per class at Frodo that at NKU. Maybe because most were there on their parent‘s money. If, like me, you went to college in the 60s you were subjected to liberal arts based core curriculum. That course has been turned into tech-based vo-Ed curriculum.
You certainly know more than I give your experience, I have no issue defaulting here seeing as I'm basing this mostly off of my personal experience.
I would say it's more of an issue of colleges providing training at an exorbitant cost when the information is readily available for motivated folks as it is. 100 years ago, I think college made more sense for the general populace to aspire to, seeing as academic information and research were only things you could find in large libraries or around educated professors.
Now? I think it's asinine that these places charge what they do for things you can find literally anywhere with a search engine. It's not that I think colleges don't provide good training or education, it's that they're overvaluing what they provide in a modern context, hence not being as good for students as it once was. There are obvious exceptions (medical doctors, etc) but on the whole, I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze for the average person.
I believe most people's college experience is as helpful as they want it to be, to me it's always been more of about the student individually than the instruction.
I will definitely say the kids at my alma mater were definitely not the type to work 30 hours a week, mostly trust fund and prep school folks. I was a bit out of my element.
