Commentary On How To Assess The Real Payoff A College Degree

view of people’s ability to learn ignores not just good evidence to the contrary, but the real pressures the American economy is facing. That means unemployment rate was higher for those with higher levels of educational accomplishment than those who had completed high certification. Education is not an obligation but rather is a choice, even people with educational background are making a difference in America such building companies of their own and have employed those with higher degree and the educated people work under them.

Many people without higher education have been useful to the country. Education is not made for everyone and each and everyone has a talent that they can benefit from, but not necessary based on college degree. According

College degree is not the only source for success in life. According to the Article, “How to Assess the Real Payoff a College Degree” By Carlson, Scott. Higher Education may not be explicitly about training people who make things and buy stuff, but it has long flirted with a utilitarian role. Many people believe that American colleges were established primarily to teach clergy, but Mr. Thelin debunks that notion in his book, A History of American Higher Education. Early colonial colleges not only helped to “identify and ratify a colonial elite,” he points out, but also were responsible for developing social values and leadership skills among young men who would inherit the New World. Some colleges were more utilitarian out of necessity. Inland institutions like Amherst, Williams, and Dartmouth were “hardscrabble colleges” that appealed to young men who did not inherit their fathers’ lands and had to find a profession to make their way in the world, Mr. Thelin says in the 19th century, the Morrill Act, which established the nations land grant colleges, focused more on professions and practical skills. (Mr. Thelin notes, though, that employers distrusted the book learning of college-educated men and women, even in highly technical fields like engineering, until well into the 1900s.) But many college educations had a kind of open ending. Ivy League students may now have reputations as careerists, but not so in the days of The Great Gatsby. Mr. Thelin has mined the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and checked them against historical sources to learn that many Ivy League students in the early 20th century were “clueless with what to do with themselves after