Re: e: [Pen-l] private vs. state colleges

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

It would be good if students _had to_ take a year off from schooling
before college so they would know why they want to go to college. The
government would have to offer a lot of public-service jobs so that
young adults wouldn't feel forced to join the armed forces.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Joanna <123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Raghu writes:
>
> "I find this philosophy very unappealing. Even if we accept all of
> Murray's premises, why not think of the college years as a form of
> forced leisure? Would you rather have young people enter the labor
> market at a even earlier age? For all the reasons that reduced working
> hours is good, I'd argue college education is good too.."
>
> It doesn't have to be either school or work. Here's my idea: from 15-25, you
> have everyone work some and go to school some. It's good for adolescents to
> work and feel
> like they're participating in society. They need to learn, exercise, work,
> and have time to hang out and engage in the labor that takes them out of
> childhood and into adulthood, and also learn how to deal with sex.
>
> There should a group of core classes -- numbers & letters -- and a
> constellation
> of everything else, that they could choose based on interest. Manual stuff,
> bookish stuff, art stuff, ...science, computer stuff. This could continue
> through the college years, allowing the students to drift themselves into
> the kind of work they want to do. Anybody who wants to do more, would do a
> few years of graduate school. And that's all.
> Right now we're wasting the kids' time mostly.
>
> Joanna
>
>
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