Wednesday, February 13, 2008

College a waste of time and money for kids

And from the School of Unconventional Wisdom...

Last week I made an off-the-cuff comment in my column that stirred up several e-mails asking if I was serious. What I said was that I had no intention of sending my kids to college. I was dead serious. I find the thought of college abhorrent, particularly for 18- to 20-year-olds. Kids have a lot of energy at that point, and to deaden it with a forced, unsupervised diversity of random topics taught by mostly mediocre professors is a waste of that energy.

ne reader asked what her kid should be doing instead of college. Here are some of my responses: (READ ON)

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