A survey released by the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. suggests not every person should attend college. The survey said with increasing student debt, the amount of pay coming into the job market and defaults on student loans, it might be better for some people to forgo attending college and delay entering the workforce.
The whole argument about if one should go to college or not is usually dependent one issue: money. If somebody has the money to go to college and wants to attend, then nothing should stop them from going.
The issue is relative as everyone isn’t in the same situation. Not everyone has the means to go to college and might want to pursue other interests, such as entering the workforce or possibly going to a trade school.
Money always will be the big issue when it comes to deciding whether or not to go to college and deciding if it will be worthwhile. Not every person wants to pay to take classes that have no bearing on what they want to do in life in order to graduate.
It is a real truth that college is not for everybody. Some people might not have what it takes to deal with college classes or feel going is unnecessary to what they want to do in life.
Others might not be able to handle the day-to-day struggles somebody in college goes through and make the transition from the work they did in high school to a college work load.
It’s a difficult decision for one to make as they are gambling on their future by not going to college.
While the survey really is addressing the monetary issues many people are going through, it doesn’t address the other value going to college gives besides an education — the experience.
Attending college can provide someone with so much more life experience than just going to class and learning.
The experience of going to college is unmatchable and immeasurable. A freshman entering the campus on his or her first day can take in so much and learn a lot about themselves. And by the time they will leave four years later, they would be a much more mature, complete person by what they experienced at college and away from home.
College isn’t just about going to class, taking in what the professor taught that day and going back to your dorm or apartment and doing your homework. It’s about meeting and interacting with new people and having new life experiences that nobody can have if they were to forgo college.
Some people will decide to not attend college for monetary reasons. Many people have made that decision and are doing just fine in life. But the overall life experience somebody can have at college is not something that can be reproduced anywhere else.
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