Posts Tagged ‘Student Loans’
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Saturday, June 30th, 2018Matt Walsh
Monday, January 20th, 2014He has a terrific rant on college debt:
So he’ll amass a gigantic debt, miss out on four or five years that could be spent honing his specific skillset, and end up exactly where he could have been, and would have been, without college. Only now he’s 28 thousand dollars in the hole and half a decade behind the curve.
RTWA: Thank God I wasn’t college material | The Matt Walsh Blog.
I’m going to start sending links to the Ace. She is contemplating transferring to a school where she would have to borrow money to finance her education. It’s a bad idea, and I keep hammering on it.
Academy Fight Song
Sunday, September 1st, 2013This piece has been linked all over the web, I think mostly because it has some great lines that are perfect for a blog post. When I went to read the whole essay on the state of higher education in this country, I came across this:
What actually will happen to higher ed, when the breaking point comes, will be an extension of what has already happened, what money wants to see happen. Another market-driven disaster will be understood as a disaster of socialism, requiring an ever deeper penetration of the university by market rationality.
Leftists just can tell the difference between a market the is functioning imperfectly and an industry that is overridden with bad incentives created by the government. They can’t see that the government has created barriers to entry. They can’t see, especially in the case of the author of this essay the corruption of the accrediting bodies. They look at the student loan program and recognize its evil qualities, but do not recognize that is is a creation of government.
I wonder what will happen to the liberal arts. I imagine, because we, as a nation, are wealthy enough that there will always be liberal arts. The surviving liberal arts programs just won’t be populated with students that think the degrees will lead to a high paying job.
As is often said, go read the whole thing. Really, it’s very good.
The Evil of Student Loans
Friday, July 5th, 2013All in once nice graphic:
I wouldn’t touch any securities that have student loans in them. This can’t go on forever, so it won’t.
How to Make the Most of Your Higher Education
Monday, February 18th, 2013How to Make the Most of Your Higher Education – Megan McArdle.
I like a lot of the items listed.
I have to think about working for a year before going to college. There is no doubt that would be a good idea for some students. I can think of one in particular that might find how hard it is to make money and would then apply himself a little harder in college.
Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken
Saturday, February 9th, 2013It’s a great article about colleges and universities.
A quote:
Because if there’s one group you’d pin your hopes for an American renaissance on, it would be state legislators.
Another one:
Imagine picking a thousand students at random from among our institutions of higher education. Now imagine unpicking everyone at one of US News‘ Top 100 liberal arts colleges or universities. You’d expel anyone from the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT. Anyone from from Emory or Rice. Anyone from Vanderbilt, Clemson, Drexel. Anyone from the famously good state schools—UMass, Virginia, the California universities. After ejecting those students from your group, how many of the original thousand would be left?
About 900.
Again:
This vitiation of the diploma is Goodhart’s Law in action, where a socially useful metric becomes increasingly worthless, because the incentives pushing towards adulteration are larger than those pushing towards purity. This is not some bad thing that was done to us in the academy. We did this to ourselves, under the rubric of ordinary accreditation…
Finally:
In the academy, we’re fine with anything that lowers the cost of education. We love those kinds of changes. But when someone threatens to lower the price, well, then we start behaving like Teamsters in tweed.
Please do go read the whole thing. It really is on point with the problems in higher education.
Average earnings of young college graduates
Thursday, February 7th, 2013Take a look at the depressing news:
I still wonder if we’re doing the Ace justice be “requiring” her to get a degree. She is the type of person that will benefit from one, and she will also get out of college debt free. I have two more years before the Deuce has to make his decision. He’s going to be an interesting case.
Best tweet of 2012
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
This is Disheartening
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012And it should give pause to everyone that thinks college is the answer for their problems. I should especially give student debtors more than a pause; something more akin to a full stop.
From The Fiscal Times, check out this chart:
I see this stuff all the time. The Ace is a freshman in college and the deuce is a sophomore in high school. I wonder if I’m guilty of parental malpractice by pushing them to college degrees. They will graduate with no student debt. At least I’m going to help them out there.
Another Reminder of …
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012Reynold’s Law. This time from WRM;
The student loan system’s biggest victims are exactly the people policy makers most want to help: marginal students whose chances of finishing are not great.
Don’t let your kids borrow money for crappy degrees from crappy schools!