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Originally Posted by jviehe
Right on. I cant even imagine the watse that goes on around sports teams at colleges. One problem with college is that it has become more of a party than an education. More students should be steered to vocational schools, which are quicker and cheaper, than 4 year colleges where they drink more than they study, and in any case have to waste 2 years taking classes they already did in high school, and will forget anyway. Do high school grads really need another 2 years of math in order to get a art history degree?
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Athletic programs at competitive schools normally generate far more revenue than costs and large alumni bequests. The purpose of college is two-fold, an education in higher learning and the development of critical thinking by exposure to people with different socioeconomic backgrounds and professors who think both inside and outside the box. That's not going to happen at Oral Roberts U or Tug's Dieselmechanic/Hairdresser/PCTech mill. And I do agree, more often than not many people are socially and mentally ill-suited to the exposure of a traditional four-year college.