Michael Price: Is College A Waste Of Time?

Whether you’re about to graduate from high school, still in middle or high school, deciding whether to continue college, or something else, this question has popped up into your mind at least once: is college worth it? Many news articles and sources have said that college is not worth it, and that college is a “waste of time”. Huffington Post Business writer, Michael Price, even wrote an article on why you shouldn’t go to college and what you should do instead. Now, Price’s, as well as many others, concerns are real. It’s true that there are large amounts of dissatisfaction and problems with higher education. There’s also no denying that, for some people, college isn’t the right choice for them. But if you’re still stuck in the fork of the

Of course not. Nothing guarantees success. But that doesn’t mean that a college degree won’t help. College opposers state that a college degree does not guarantee learning or job preparations. Huffington Post Business writer, Michael Price, stated that “...[college students] get out in the real world and realize that life doesn’t allow for perfect records, and that no matter how hard [they] try, [they] will likely lose more often than [they] win and [they] will never be perfect…”. Price states that college graduates have “zero [job] skills” because colleges and universities do not prep students for the “real world” or for the jobs/careers the graduates will experience. Washington Post writer, Jeffrey J. Selingo, also wrote that “...college graduates severely [lack] in some basic skills, particularly problem solving, decision making, and the ability to prioritize tasks…”. On the other hand, staff writer for The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead, reported that college teaches students “to nurture critical thought; to expose individuals to the signal accomplishments of humankind; to develop in them an ability not just to listen actively but to respond intelligently...”. To add, according to a 2011 survey done by the Pew Research Center, 74% of college graduates say that their college education helped them grow intellectually; 69% of graduates stated that college helped them grow and mature as a person; and 55% of the college graduates say that college has helped them in preparing for a job or