Your response, while thought provoking, applies only to particularly faithful christians. We really aren’t discussing the individual’s process for college selection, we’re talking about the pros/cons of education in the United States.

Also, just to nitpick, I’m pretty sure Achan’s sin is the only reason god supposedly punished the Israelites, because after Achan’s sin was exposed, the Israelites defeated Ai at their second go-around. Saying anything else would just be pure speculation on god’s motives, wouldn’t it?

good to hear from you.

my question is, do you think educationally speaking that the JC you are at has prepared you for where life will take you?

Every society needs doctors, lawyers, engineers, architechts, etc. But every society also needs what we’ll call ‘blue collar’ workers too: foodservice, landscaping, construction, janitorial services… the list goes on. My grandfather, the single greatest man I have ever known, never went to college. He started out working in a restaurant and owned three when he died, because he worked hard and was intelligent about it. If someone wanted to do that now, he would almost have to be independantly wealthy beforehand or have a business degree. Ridiculous! If you know your craft, you know your craft, and if you can learn it without wasting time and money at college, why not?

Maybe if we laid off and stopped societally FORCING people who don’t want/shouldn’t need to go to school to go to school, and took care of our absolutely vital ‘blue collar’ workforce instead with the way we do taxes and whatnot (i.e., don’t knock them out of existence with tax cuts to the rich), the people who want and need to go to school would actually be able to without ruining themselves financially. That was a long sentence, but you get the point. Since when was vocational training a bad thing? Why is it looked down upon in our society to want to be a mechanic, or a farmer, or a truck driver, or a salesman?

As for junior colleges, they’re a total joke. I know a handful of people who go there to work hard, get it done, and save money to transfer. God bless them, they’re probably going to succeed and lead wonderful lives. But, from my experience, the vast majority of kids in junior college are just graduated high school students whose parents are making them go to school and clog up the system for everyone else.