1) College is absolutely not necessary, as many successful people have proven.
2) Community college will be perfectly sufficient for most people who want college level education. I work with many other physicians from prestigious (i.e. expensive) and not prestigious institutions and guess what...we all ended up at the same place with the same general knowledge.
3) My undergraduate education was at BYU, very reasonably priced due to subsidy from the LDS church. We don't need taxation or other involuntary government intervention to provide a quality college level education for our citizens at a reasonable price.
4) Can we stop acting like the big bad banks are holding a gun to the heads of college freshmen? Every student loan I took out (and it's been many) was voluntary and I proceeded very carefully knowing that it would profoundly affect me for most of my working life. Welcome to being an adult.
5) We absolutely could cut down on the length of training for physicians and many other careers by cutting out the crap. As a side note, I think organic chemistry is a very valuable building block for a physician's education, although we are not using it in every day practice.
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1) College is absolutely not necessary, as many successful people have proven.
2) Community college will be perfectly sufficient for most people who want college level education. I work with many other physicians from prestigious (i.e. expensive) and not prestigious institutions and guess what...we all ended up at the same place with the same general knowledge.
3) My undergraduate education was at BYU, very reasonably priced due to subsidy from the LDS church. We don't need taxation or other involuntary government intervention to provide a quality college level education for our citizens at a reasonable price.
4) Can we stop acting like the big bad banks are holding a gun to the heads of college freshmen? Every student loan I took out (and it's been many) was voluntary and I proceeded very carefully knowing that it would profoundly affect me for most of my working life. Welcome to being an adult.
5) We absolutely could cut down on the length of training for physicians and many other careers by cutting out the crap. As a side note, I think organic chemistry is a very valuable building block for a physician's education, although we are not using it in every day practice.