A graduation ceremony at Pasadena City School in Pasadena, Calif., June 14, 2019.
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With regards to Tarren Bragdon’s “Florida Will help People See Powering the School Curtain” (Cross Country, March 19): It is lamentable that college or university has devolved into white-collar vocational training, the worth of a college education calculated only by the projected revenue of its graduates. Greater instruction used to be a selective prospect for highly developed learning, an experience into artwork, philosophy, science and all the excellent hallmarks of civilization. It will have to at the extremely least (given the failure of substantial universities) deliver the instructional foundation—literacy, numeracy, civics, essential thinking—for adulthood, a meaningful vocation and dependable citizenship.
I wish the Bragdon young children success, but if all they get out of college is a rewarding task, they will have squandered more than their parents’ income.
Stanley Spatz
Hollywood, Fla.
Not only is school a inadequate monetary option for way too a lot of younger persons, it is also a bad mental possibility. In “Academically Adrift,” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa discovered that four years used on campus scarcely improved advanced reasoning and writing skills. That is why half of companies complain that the grads they retain the services of are sick-organized for the workplace.
Walt Gardner
Los Angeles
I wish very little but superior fortune to Mr. Bragdon’s school-age small children, but if deciding upon a school and key was about evaluating majors in a Florida databases for bang for the buck, the even handed option would be to purchase a dry-cleaning or burger franchise. Internet marketing? Operations? Management? The franchise has the youngsters lined. The first expense is about the exact same, and credit card debt ranges are very similar. Why waste time with interruptions these kinds of as art, literature, science, math or music when the treadmill of lifestyle can be mounted ideal absent?
Perry Glasser
Salem, Mass.
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