Did High School Really Prepare You?

Supernova wrote:I don't really think school is much for preparation for the real world, otherwise they'd have classes that teach everybody how to do things most people can't get, like balancing checkbooks and managing finances...it's more a matter of just getting kids out of the house and making sure they're sitting down and being zombies for so many years so the state can get its money for them being in school.

Rockbird wrote:College prepared me for the harsh reality that they only want money. Education as a business. Sickening.

Forgiveness Man wrote:Education and "school" are becoming less and less synonymous.

Supernova wrote:If they find that needle in a haystack that is a college education instead of 4 or more years of taking all your money and sapping up all your time for nothing and you still can't find a job based on what happened there, good for them, but most of us got the regular college experience instead.

LOL, you're a shining example. Did you READ what I said?

Supernova wrote:Yes, and from my own experience, I already knew what I wanted to do LONG before I ever entered college, but everybody's got to have a degree, nobody hires you even if you can do the work if you don't have one, so I had to go, and I don't think anything I 'learned' there is anything I would've been worse off not knowing. Oh sure, the music classes were good, introduced me to a few songs I didn't already know, everything else either didn't matter then or hasn't proven useful since.

You didn't have to do anything. If you knew exactly what you wanted to do, then you should've spent the time you 'claim' you wasted in college on focusing on what you wanted to do. Why did you even bother if you didn't go there to learn anything? Fuck getting a job for a minute. You're supposed to learn something.

Most of it was head games with the professors, you take the exams, and the right answers are NOT the ones you find in the textbook, just like they were pulling them off the top of their head or something, what's that supposed to teach people?

Nystyle709 wrote:Wasn't supposed to prepare you for the real world essentially. Was supposed to give you basic knowledge and prepare you for college and furthering your education. Really, I don't know what kind of school system everybody went to on here.....but I was learning how to balance a checkbook and managing finances in the 7th grade. I learned the basics of cooking in the 8th grade. I learned how to sew in school. I learned how to the read the stock market.......in grade school. At my HS....they had shop classes and various other trade classes for students who knew they wanted to forgo college and learn a trade. How much preparing for the real world are they supposed to do? No slight against you personally Marc, but this attack on education and higher education that everybody seems to be jumping on the bandwagon on is totally ridiculous. Yes, schools want money. Yes, the run like a business because they have overhead like a business. Yes, this poor economy is making exceptions for even the most well-educated of job seekers but this acting like you're not getting anything of value by obtaining a post secondary degree/education is just crazy. You're getting knowledge. Learning something I'm sure your ass didn't know. That isn't enough? It's like people are getting comfortable and actually taking pride in being uneducated. Quite frankly, there is no way that you can tell me that everything you would've learned in college you would've learned without being there. College can spark someone's interest tremendously.....people find their 'calling' and decide what careers they want to pursue by taking advantage of the opportunities available to them while being there. Don't get it twisted, I am not saying that people who don't have a formal education are stupid, I am not saying all people with degrees are smart/intelligent. If college isn't for you, cool.....if you can't afford to go, cool.....but you should never discourage or look down (as I've seen) on someone for pursuing it.

Impact wrote:The whole point of school is to prepare you for the next level.

Kindergarten prepares you for elementary school...which prepares you for middle/junior...which prepares you for high school...which prepares you for college...which gives you an accreditation for choosier, elitist employers. And with so many people competing for jobs, employers almost have to look at who's got a degree in order to make it easier on them to choose who to hire.

Everything taught after grade 8 is not essential to surviving in the real world.