Comments on: Q4: Vincent http://genstuck.wbur.org/blog/vincent/2182/ Twelve 20-somethings chronicle their lives for WBUR. Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3 By: Vincent Capone http://genstuck.wbur.org/blog/vincent/2182/#comment-185 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:10:00 +0000 http://genstuck.wbur.org/?p=2182#comment-185 I think you misconstrued what I meant. I do believe that the system is over-saturated for the available and demand for advanced education degrees in America. However I do not believe that college is the only recipe for success or prosperity in any sense, and I believe that is something that our public school system is gravely over-pushing onto students.

]]> By: Phoenix Tso http://genstuck.wbur.org/blog/vincent/2182/#comment-182 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:54:00 +0000 http://genstuck.wbur.org/?p=2182#comment-182 “The U.S. higher-education system has opened the floodgates and allowed too many students to attend college, thus making Bachelor’s degrees only a step up in value over high-school diplomas.”

I don’t think this statement is true (less than 30% of Americans have a college degree, and with attending college so expensive, I find it hard to believe that the majority of Americans have access). It’s also an incredibly classist thing to say. If college is in fact the key to prosperity, everybody should have the opportunity to attend. More people attending college doesn’t devalue your degree at all. As you touch on better in the rest of your essay, there are other factors at play that don’t make a college degree the guarantee that it once was.

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