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Originally posted by valkyrie
The solution is simple -- either teach kids the skills they need so they can go to college and survive, or keep them locked away at home until their brains are developed.
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Well, maybe the second makes sense. My Sophomore or Junior English Prof -- a really good teacher -- once told us that the only real reason for college, as it was then, was to keep some of us out of the job market for four years.
He thought that everyone should be required to go out and work, do military service (not a popular thought in 1968 or so), or be in some kind of national service like the Peace Corps.
After that time, he said, we would have more maturity, better time management skills and maybe even an idea of what we wanted to be when we grew up.
We all wrote that off -- but it made an impression on me at least.
Who knows, maybe he was right.
ETA: You can "teach" kids until you're blue in the face, but if they aren't mature enough to make good decisions -- which is really the important point in the study for me -- it really won't help.
That is spoken as a father who had three kids who managed to live through their teens -- somewhat surprisingly in one case.