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Why Undergrad Degrees Should Offer Trade Training
Students who do better in life post-college are more likely to support that college.
The current model of education in our society presents many arbitrary roadblocks on the highway of self-betterment. I’ve long argued that education at all levels should be completely free — all resources subsidized by the society as a whole, for the betterment of society as a whole. But how might current education systems might alter their operations in order to present more options to their students? What sort of changes can be made to practical ends within the terrible system we currently have?
Let’s teach students a trade.
My undergraduate college was from a little private liberal arts institution devoted to giving students a well-rounded education and a strong moral and philosophical groundwork for active participation in the world. That college’s mission has long been to sidestep as many of the arbitrary barriers to education as possible; to present students with the chance at an education that matters. Unfortunately, as a private institution, they also ended up leaving their students burdened with high debt.
But in all my time attending that institution, I rarely felt as if I were being prepared to tackle the immense and…
