Is College A Lousy Investment

Is College a Lousy Investment?

Every one of us has a different answer for this controversial question, but every detailed discussed on the article are really good arguments why investing incollege may not be the best investment ever. It all depends from which perspective you are determining if it’s good to invest on your own education to be better off or not. May be what we need to examine isthat if we are really, as students, getting the best out of the education we are receiving. By the time we enter college we are already capable of examining ourselves and determine if we reallydeserve the challenge to go to college not only to get a diploma, but to spend the four year making ourselves smarter and competitive. Let’s not forget that college might not be the best option foreveryone. In the article they make a very important point that says that the value of an education can be very high but the value of a credential is strictly limited. That if we as students were gainingreal and valuable skills in school, then putting more students into college will increase the productivity capacity of a lot of companies and the economy. But what the real problem is that credentialsare zero-sum game. Most of the students nowadays only worry about getting a good grade and passing every single class and getting their diploma as fast and painless as it could possibly be. We shouldtake advantage in every class to learn and not only to conform ourselves with what is being taught in the class, but to spend some of our free time investigating more of it and getting the subject toanother level . Is as they said “NO PAIN NO GAIN”. If in the four years of college you never had to sleep less hours than usual to spend some more time studying, to stay at your house on the weekendbecause there was no time for fun due to the massive workload or so, you got your diploma the free stress and easy way, and this is not the way it’s supposed to be because in those four years you will...