US Colleges Must Teach Marketable Schools
According to some higher education experts, U.S. institutions of higher learning must start teaching students how to be more desirable to employers, or face being usurped by apprenticeship systems and other forms of job training. While the idea that a college degree can be replaced with other experience remains controversial, the 2010 American Council of Trustees and Alumni report, titled “What Will They Learn?,” confirms that few institutions require students to take courses teaching the skills necessary to be good citizens or employees, such as basic American government, or economics, or mathematics.
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I agree with the experts that say that say that colleges should teach students more work skills and focus on career strategies. Ideally, there should be a happy medium where students get a strong foundation in the liberal arts and gain some background in art, philosophy, mathematics, science, but at the same time learn the career skills necessary to succeed globally. The problem with trade schools and apprenticeships is that students do not gain any background in the liberal arts and thus they do not have strong foundation to learn later in life or understand society in general. Trade schools only teach one thing and it is too specialized to produce worldly individuals.
Though college costs have increased substantially, I still recommend that students still attend college because education is the great equalizer and without you will have very limited opportunities.