In the summer of 2013, President Obama revealed a new concept for academia, namely that colleges would be judged on their merits, and performance. He said he felt that was important because of the high tuition costs. If colleges and universities could not justify those high cost, then those costs would need to be lowered.
Is this going to be the new price control of academia, as tuition costs are making it impossible for anyone to get ahead, literally causing economic enslavement to all of those who get college degrees? If so, that isn't doing much to bring up minorities in the world, rather is just putting them into a sort of indentured servitude until they pay off those loans - a perpetual internship if you will. These are loans which cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, at least not currently. Let's talk.
Interestingly enough, I had to quit school, I was losing at least $200 per hours sitting in classes and listening to lectures that I could have given myself. Yes, I was a sassy young man, but I'd also run a business since age 12, and I was taking mostly business classes. You can imagine my angst at having academic professors not answer my questions, asking me to sit down and shut up, listen to their lectures, when all they were doing was teaching to the textbook, textbooks which I had already read prior to even taking those classes, as I bought the required textbooks and read them before the class started, after all, I was there to learn and I was paying for it. Apparently things haven't changed.
There was an interesting article on Open Forum Online News recently written by Kelley Spoors titled; "The Big Way U.S. Business Schools Are Failing Students," published on August 22, 2013 which stated; "Business schools are meant to educate the next wave of entrepreneurs... right?" and "When asked what makes this country so unique, Americans like to tout the country's entrepreneurial spirit and innovative drive. However, one recent survey suggests our nation's college students-at least the ones attending business school-aren't very entrepreneurial-minded."
It's unfortunate that so many left-leaning academic professors find it necessary to pull their personal economic and political belief systems into the business classrooms. When they teach ethics, they often teach it from the point of view that money is bad, and capitalism is evil. That's just not true. It is fine and noble to have a worthy cause, or to want change the world as an entrepreneur. But you have to make money first. No bank wants to give you money for a flawed business plan with a lousy proforma, one which may not be able to pay the loan back.
No matter how good and noble your goals are for helping the public good, you have to make money first. Perhaps this is why business schools are failing, and their students are not getting much ou of them. Does that mean with President Obama's plan they will be cut out of the federal funding or guaranteed student loan programs for most business schools? If so, this is going to get very interesting. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Business Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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Is this going to be the new price control of academia, as tuition costs are making it impossible for anyone to get ahead, literally causing economic enslavement to all of those who get college degrees? If so, that isn't doing much to bring up minorities in the world, rather is just putting them into a sort of indentured servitude until they pay off those loans - a perpetual internship if you will. These are loans which cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, at least not currently. Let's talk.
Interestingly enough, I had to quit school, I was losing at least $200 per hours sitting in classes and listening to lectures that I could have given myself. Yes, I was a sassy young man, but I'd also run a business since age 12, and I was taking mostly business classes. You can imagine my angst at having academic professors not answer my questions, asking me to sit down and shut up, listen to their lectures, when all they were doing was teaching to the textbook, textbooks which I had already read prior to even taking those classes, as I bought the required textbooks and read them before the class started, after all, I was there to learn and I was paying for it. Apparently things haven't changed.
There was an interesting article on Open Forum Online News recently written by Kelley Spoors titled; "The Big Way U.S. Business Schools Are Failing Students," published on August 22, 2013 which stated; "Business schools are meant to educate the next wave of entrepreneurs... right?" and "When asked what makes this country so unique, Americans like to tout the country's entrepreneurial spirit and innovative drive. However, one recent survey suggests our nation's college students-at least the ones attending business school-aren't very entrepreneurial-minded."
It's unfortunate that so many left-leaning academic professors find it necessary to pull their personal economic and political belief systems into the business classrooms. When they teach ethics, they often teach it from the point of view that money is bad, and capitalism is evil. That's just not true. It is fine and noble to have a worthy cause, or to want change the world as an entrepreneur. But you have to make money first. No bank wants to give you money for a flawed business plan with a lousy proforma, one which may not be able to pay the loan back.
No matter how good and noble your goals are for helping the public good, you have to make money first. Perhaps this is why business schools are failing, and their students are not getting much ou of them. Does that mean with President Obama's plan they will be cut out of the federal funding or guaranteed student loan programs for most business schools? If so, this is going to get very interesting. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Business Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7957236
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