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  AN EDITORIAL
    As the state looks at merging several institutions of higher learning, it also should examine duplicate  programs at remaining universities.
    There is no need for redundant educational programs at multiple schools. We need only one great engineering school, only one great journalism school, the list goes on.
    Actually, we would surely be better off closing some of the specialty programs and working on a tuition assistance program with a neighboring state or two.

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Submitted By: dillobas Submitted: 2/17/2010
Well, actually there is no need for required courses that have absolutely no relevance to what a person is majoring in. Just like a person who is majoring in music, there is no need for them to take required courses in english, history or math. It's just stupid educational system this entire country has in place or should we say that the only reason why such courses are required, is for the purpose of raising tuition fees or for financial gain. When a person graduates from High School and they later go to college, many student have to take remedial courses to refresh there memory of the things they've forgotten. Let's say someone graduates from college with a degree in hand, they then go on to land a fantastic job, two or three years later, they once again forget those same things, that they once learned in high school and then had to take remedial courses in college. What a fantastic educational system we have... I think not! In England, a student graduates from High School at an earlier age, around 16 years of age and is then set to go to college and most finish college by the time they are 18 years of age. There educational system is totally different from the one in the United States and it makes more sense. The United States has always... tried to make things as complicated as they could, with so much garbage red tape, that it's no wonder, people are saying that they are having to pay more in tuition fees, than what they would ever make in a life time at a job, from the degree they had received. Most people spend the rest of there lives, trying to pay back the loans on such tuition fees. And even when a person gets a degree, there is no guarantee that they'll get the dream job they are looking for. I've found some with master degrees working at gasoline stations or hamburger joints, because they could not find good jobs with degrees in hand. Regardless of what you learn in college, any job you get has to teach you how they do things and how they want things done. And climbing up the social ladder is not what it's all cracked up to be either. Most all of your richest and wealthiest people, right here in the United States either dropped out of high school or dropped out of college and became more than successful and that my friend is a true fact, that had been posted on Yahoo a few days ago. And one more thing... there were a few earlier Presidents of the United States, that never finished high school or never even went to school. School has become big business and churches have become big businesses as well. Apparently, it's simply all amount greed.



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