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Success Without College

Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now--and May Not Have to Go At All
THE CASE AGAINST COLLEGE

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
--GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Here is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning's sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture and the like.

Here is who actually goes to college: everyone. That everyone includes the learning disabled and the fairly dumb, those who have trouble reading and writing and doing math, slackers who see college as an opportunity to major in Beers of the World, burned-out book jockeys and the just plain average student with not much interest in anything.

Think about your high school class. Now think about the 76 percent of those students (80 to 90 percent in middle-class suburbs) who say they expect to go to two-year or four-year colleges. You begin to see the problem?

Pamela Gerhardt, who has been teaching advanced writing and editing at the University of Maryland fo ... read full excerpt from: Success Without College ebook