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Professor: Value of college extends beyond paycheck
- 06-13-2011
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NPR
Many American families are asking whether sending their children to college is worth it if they end up in jobs that pay less than the cost of tuition. Mike Rose, a professor of education at UCLA, says it makes complete sense for people to be concerned about the economic benefits of college. "We respond to the threat that's most imminent, right?" Rose tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon. But, he says, there are many other reasons to get a college education. Rose, the author of Why School? and other books, cites the idea of intellectual growth — "not just learning things to make a living, but also learning things to enable you to do things with your life, to enable you to find interests and pursuits that may in some way or another expand the way we see things." (more...)
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