Does anyone go to college for the sake of learning?!


Question: I think most of my students are there because their parents are making them or because they just want the degree. I don't think any of them actually want to know the information they get in their classes.

(Non-traditional students excluded.)


Answers: I think most of my students are there because their parents are making them or because they just want the degree. I don't think any of them actually want to know the information they get in their classes.

(Non-traditional students excluded.)

I am going back in the fall of 2008 at the age of 60; yes, I am taking it seriously.

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  • ya how do you do a 20 second keg stand?

    it's all about the money

    occasionally.

    me.....

    Well I just started going full time in pursuit of a degree but have been attending college without a degree just taking classes i have been interested in for years now.

    so yes.

    Well I love to learn.Im in school to learn as much as possible. I would love to be a professional student!

    Actually, I am 16 almost 17 (In April)
    And i attend College 5 days a week, and I go to really learn about the subjects that I am taking.
    And O-M-G I'm not a nerd!
    I have a great social life, and get high grades. Most people go to claim the EMA.
    I go because I have a thirst for knowledge and actually want to make something of myself.

    I go to have fun and learn<

    I went because I wanted to learn. There was no way I was ready for the real world at 17 years old. I loved college--true, I did have fun, but I learned a plethora of information as well. People who go only to party usually don't succeed. College is definitely worth going for--especially for the sake of learning.

    I do.

    Many of them go because it's the demanded route if you want a decent job. Not many people can afford to put the time and cash into it strictly for enrichment's sake.

    yes, my students are just the same with a few exceptions. however, I think it's those exceptions are the ones that will really make a difference in the future.

    Hmmm... That could be. I'm surprise it's not just to get a job.
    When I was originally in college (traditional student), I was there for an education. My friends felt the same way. We were not just after a piece of paper. Of course we wanted gainful employment as well but we figured that would come with the education. I'm working on a graduate degree now. It is just spurring my love of learning. However, I don't think I'll pursue a PhD. I'm exhausted now doing what I'm doing. But who knows.. I may change my mind.

    I have stopped promoting college for my stepkids. (Neither of their parents went to college.) They don't really like school. They don't like reading. It seems like unless their attitude changes that it would be what's the point. It costs so much money. One of them has said that she only wants to go for a couple of years for the paper. She's young but still... I knew that I was going to college. My parents encouraged it but I was determined to go. When I finished high school, I wasn't done with learning. I never will be but I might take a break from academic studies and pursue a different level.
    I'm almost finished with my Masters.

    i dno, i aint started yet, and i think its a total waste of time, people don't usually turn out to be what they want to be in the future anyway, so why waste about 2, 2 years of life, when you could be out there, getting a job, earning **** loads of money, while everyone else is studying.

    Yes , I would have graduated earlier had I not taken classes not germane to my degree . I have taken a number of classes where I was a "monitor" and received no credits , they were for my own edification .
    I agree with you because for the majority of my students ( when I was still teaching ) , when conscious , where just there practicing the philosophy of minimalism in a perpetual state of inertia !
    There were , of course , those who were sincere about learning .
    :0)

    If you do, you're stupid and you're not college material. Only the credentials count. What's in your head matters little--anyone who has ever had a boss (or a president) knows this.

    "Education" is a lie and a fraud, when any fool can go to Harvard or Yale if they have the price (which goes up if you're stupid and rich, but no so much that the rich can't pay it).

    Professors still don't get it. They have no friggin clue what their job is! "Education" is a product, like any other; it must be marketed and sold and bought and paid for. However, the market has been distorted with lies and falsehoods, and little tiny BS colleges whose degrees have no market value are still managing to steal tuition money from their easily targeted young buyer-victims. The people who run these colleges should be in jail. On the other hand, so should the people who run Havard and Yale and the other Ivies.

    Professors are like pets for sale in the pet shop--they have no idea they are being bought and sold--daily. They complain that students have a consumerist attitude toward their education. But the professors can't see that this is not a criticism. "Education" (i.e., a degree) is the biggest and most important purchase anyone will ever make; you cannot return it, you cannot discharge the price in bankruptcy (it is the only contract debt that is not dischargeable in bankruptcy, the only other nondischargeable debts arise from crimes and child support) and yet the sellers of this product complain that buyers want to look the horse in the mouth! No surer sign of fraud than that.

    Education, like your new car to replace your not-very-old car, is your ticket to debt and slavery.

    Education is sold by the government in this country in order to keep everyone in hopeless debt and turn everyone into a complacent, "educated" version of Joe Six-Pack who is too beat at the end of the day to even notice that their lives and their country are being stolen from them while they watch the latest Britney Bulletin on CNN or Fox.

    If your main concern is "getting ahead" and worrying about paying your bills for your new car and your education or your kids' education, then the country and everything in it is no longer being watched and is easily stolen by anone not hampered by these concerns. (Cheney dropped out of Yale and went to U. Montana--is Montana "better" than Yale? Do I need to go to Yale to become rich beyond belief or to control the presidency?)


    As for your question about why young people go to college, whether they're told by their parents or "want to learn," if you have to ask you should not be teaching college. But here's the answer: Most people go to college for the same reason they went to summer camp--it's what people do. Most people need college like they need a new car every four years--it's what they've been sold.

    And the system, including the pricing system, the grading and GPA system, the hiring system, punishes students for trying to learn. Here's a project for you: Ask yourself how students are punished for seeking an education and NOT taking a consumerist approach.

    George W. Bush went to Yale (and later Harvard Business School) for something to do and to be near his friends and because his parents told him that he might need it someday (turns out they were wrong--he would have been elected by the Supreme Court even if he hadn't been a Yale man; Dan Quayle went to a little Indiana law school at night and he was sil given the no. 2 job by the Powers in charge).

    Bill Gates, on the other hand, was rich enough to tell Harvard to bite it, and he went from being a multimillionaire to being a multibillionaire. Now he lectures as an honored guest at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and they have nothing against him--they know that credentials are a fraud, and if you are truly special (something their credentials are designed to tell the world that you are), you don't need (these particular)credentials that say so.

    In short, unless you can get hip to what's happening, you are destined to spend a life not knowing what is going on around you and why you are even there. That would be a wasted life.



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