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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
No, I think everyone deserves a college education. In my ideal world, everyone would be able to obtain a college education, and further, would be able to attend the type of elementary and high schools that prepare them for success at the university level.
However, we don't live in my ideal world, we live in a society with limited resources for higher education, and thus we have to make decisions on who does and does not get to go to college.
So, as a person who pays taxes that support public universities throughout the state, I would prefer that the limited number of spots in each incoming freshman class be allocated to those with ambitions toward a post-college career or other path that contributes to society beyond one's own family.
Granted, if you don't "work" outside the home, but volunteer or otherwise contribute strongly to your community, that's effectively the same thing, but there is a huge amount of intellectual capital lost when highly-educated women choose to leave the workforce.
But really, this all misses the larger point: regardless of what individual women choose to do with their lives, societal forces exist that push women out of the workplace and into the home, while similar forces don't exist for men. So if your goal is gender equality (and mine is) the question is not really "is it okay for women to go to college just to find a husband?", the question is "why do women do this and men don't?", and in this context of this article, why didn't this woman write the same thing to the men of Princeton?
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Originally Posted by adpiucf
I know that we should be learning for learning's sake, but I truly don't see the point of a college education if you don't plan to have a career "outside the home." It seems like a waste of time and money, but please understand that I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone who grew up in a blue collar family, was the first in my family to attend college, and financed my education with loans and scholarships. Why would I have gone to college and taken on that debt just to keep house? I'm all for the choice, but it is financially irresponsible to go to college unless you are paying cash or you plan to work off the debt.
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College is not trade school. If college is all about getting a degree so you can go out and work, then we should close down liberal arts colleges immediately and make everyone major in stuff like business and engineering.
My momma has a degree and is the best momma in the world. She is my role model. She took care of our home and family and raised several wonderful, smart, educated and giving children. We were loved and nurtured and read to and prepared to become upstanding and happy adults. She helped at our school, volunteered in very challenging places, supported my daddy in every way and helped us with our homework and made us delicious homemade food. I'm sorry you think that life and those accomplishments are beneath an educated woman.