Angela Y :
In high school and university, there isn’t enough time for students to gain a lot of practical knowledge. So, when they start working, they still need to gain practical experience before they are very useful to the employer. Who do you think should pay for this practical education – the employer or the employee?
Ashley =) :
If you visit NationMaster.com, you’ll see that the top 5 countries with the highest mathematical literacy rates beyond high school are Japan (#1), South Korea (#2), New Zealand (#3), Finland (#4), and Canada (#5), with the US ranked at #18.
For reading literacy rates, there’s Finland (#1), Canada (#2), New Zealand (#3), Australia (#4) and Ireland (#5) with the US ranked at #15.
For scientific literacy rates, there’s South Korea (#1), Japan (#2), Finland (#3), the UK (#4) and Canada (#5), with the US ranked at #14.
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Regardless of what country I’m from, I’m paying between $5-7K each year for my university education. When considering these stats, why aren’t more Americans packing their bags and heading for a country where the education is not only better, but also CHEAPER? I hear that at some American schools, students are paying almost $15k a SEMESTER?!?! Are they NUTS? It just does not make any sense to me. Explain, please. I’m not being anti-American. Just…wow.
SophiaLeo :
..the poor people will have a problem to get a goof education, and therefore will have problem to straighen out their life. Poor stays poor and rich stays rich?
Where I come from I get money for studying at university.
So this scholarships are avaliable for everyone? I do not think so. One lost person is to much. In my home country I can study to doctor, teacher or whatever absolutely for free. Without applying for special programs or scholarships. I don’t want this to be a competition between contries, it just makes me sad when I think about the situation so many people in USA must be in. Not beeing able to eat so save money for collage. What about all the single moms out there? It’s just very sad. Knowledge is power.
Bob W–> Wow, I didn’t see that coming.First of all, If you want to know, I have been working and paying my taxes like a good girl for years, and now I take a break for studying. I do not feel bad for taking the money I will get for this – because I have with my taxes paid for other people.
Second of all, I don’t live in a communist country, and you can study whatever you want. No one choose this for you. It looks like you have no idea what you are talking about. Goodbye now.
Lynn A–> Excuse me for not having perfect english, after all this is not my native languages. Are you willing to have this discussion in some of the other languages I speak? Swedish, spanish and greek? Or maybe you only speak english.
I am so tired of trying to have conversations with americans that only attack my english spelling and grammar. It’s quite rude and frankly very ignorant.
VaD :
What is good college/university for studying Physchology in Canada and in Alberta specificly?
I am a pernament resident in canada, immigrated from Israel, I immigrated right after graduating from high school but did not get my diploma yet (cause it take like a year to recieve it). How can I get in a university of college in this situation ?
And another qeustion, How can I pay for education without getting into depts?
nad :
Why should post-secondary education be free?
Why shouldn’t it be free?
Should maybe just the undergraduate degree be fully or partially paid for while charging full tuition for graduate school?
What do you guys think? A good thorough list of your opinions would be greatly appreciated!
Brian A :
I know using funds from an IRA to pay for qualified education expenses are accepted and not penalized. However, I have a mortage and will need some cash to help pay it. “Room and Board” is a qualified expense but how would this work in my situation?
Shan :
I’am going to community college to get my grades up and to kind of get back in school mode after taking my 1st year off, i now have some idea’s of what i want to do later on in life, but they require university. I don’t know if i should go to university or not because i’am scared of getting into debt, i ‘am already going to be 10 grand in debt after communty college, i ‘am scared that i will fail university and have to end up quitting or take an extra year and be more and more in debt. Also my friend is in university now and she has got student loans to pay for her university education but she found out in her 2nd term that student loans isn’t going to give her enough money to cover everything she needs, so she had to get a bank loan and it’s charging her interest everyday. So i ‘am also scared i wont get enough money and i’ll have to get a bank loan than the interest will be crazy by the time i could pay it off.
I ‘am looking at taking human services at community college thn my 2nd year in child and youth care, thank if i go to university i was thinking of taking a bachelor of arts major psychology and minor in sociology than once i graduate from that either take a master of psychology or get my bachelor of education degree so i can become a career counsellor or if i had taken my masters in psychology than become a child and youth therapist.
If you have ever droped out of university how did you pay back the loans or are you still paying??
any advise would be awesome.
Dina :
Does anyone get free education there? Here in Canada, the native people (ie-First Nations) are offered university for free. I want to know if it’s the same in the U.S. thanks
I want to know both about high school AND unversity.
Duminos :
Getting a degree from Harvard is typically quite applauded compared to most average colleges.
I noticed that our school district recently hired a teacher who graduated from Harvard. The teacher will get the same salary as other teachers.
Would you like your kid to have exposure to teachers from prestigious universities? Do these teachers deserve the same pay or better pay?
How likely are our schools to attract more accomplished teachers if we pay them the same salary as other teachers?
Or, is getting a teacher from a prestigious university not worth while?
If you wanted to become a teacher, would you be wasting a ton of your own money if you went to a top-tier university instead of another college for your education since your pay likely won’t be any better?
Do Dems end up giving us mediocrity by supporting teachers unions?
