Is College Education A Scam?

College education or often known as higher education has a long history. Many of the big name universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, were founded during the colonial ages.
However, people did not go to universities by the masses until the 1960s. This was due to socioeconomic constraints, limited access to education, and societal expectations. Before the 1960s, college was seen as education for the wealthy and the elites, but colleges now have grown in tuition costs to point of going into deep debt just to obtain a degree. According to the National Debt Clock, the USA currently have over 2.1 Trillion dollars of student loan debt.

In this discussion, we will be discussing the role of higher education, job placement, STEM, Liberal Arts, high tuition costs, insane politics, and the decrease of value of college degrees.

Questions:
1. What is the role of higher education?
2. Is the department of education a good idea or a bad idea?
3. What was college tuition like during your generation?
4. Why do we see such a massive increase in college tuition?
5. Do you believe that current college students are getting smarter after attending college?
6. What's the difference between education & indoctrination?
7. What's the difference between being smart and being educated?
8. How did universities in America gain so many worthless degrees?
9. Is there a trend in shifting away from traditional universities?
10. Are government programs like Affirmative Action, DEI, Critical Race Theory, Legacy Admissions helping for harming students?
11. Why are so many college graduates having a hard time finding jobs?
12. What role does society and culture play on the stigmas of having and not having a higher education?
13. What are some examples of useful and useless degrees?
14. Where universities always meant to be designed to find jobs?
15. When and why did STEM degrees get more attention than Liberal Arts?
16. Do modern college students have critical thinking skills?
17. Were you taught personal accounting during your time in college or even high school?
18. Why did Trump pull funding from schools like Harvard?
19. Why is it that In the past, there were more real skills competent young people coming out of high school, but now we see the opposite: Many college graduates with Bachelors and Masters without any job experience and other competencies? (Many entry level jobs now require experience)
20. Is community college much better option than traditional universities?
21. Are trade schools the new trend?
22. How has the role of high school changed overtime with its relationship with colleges?
23. How can traditional universities decrease its tuition cost?
24. What do you think about Trump's vision to abolish the department of education?
25. Is education in America one way or another leaning too much on the political spectrum?
26. What books and curriculums should be banned and kept?

Guidelines:

• Hand raises are required.
• There will be a 3 minute timer for every person. However, in this group, I do allow a brief back and fourth interjection from others if it's something that's related to the person who was just speaking. This is a way to prevent the group from feeling too "robotic" in style and get your pressing question asked to the speaker and get the answer right away without waiting all the way back to your turn again.
• Be authentic & civil!
• Please refrain from using Ad Hominem (personal) attacks. Instead, please attack the points from others.
• Severe Ad Hominem such as racist behavior will result in being removed from the meeting.

Zoom link will be posted 10 minutes before the meeting.