Charlie Kirk often said that college was a scam. As I was researching direct quotes (as you should when making a claim about what someone said), I found the article Opinion: Attacks on College Are the Real Scam by The Daily Utah Chronicle. I just had to include some of it in this post. 

“Conservatives often frame their distaste for higher education as concern for students’ return on investment. In reality, attacks on universities are ideological. These influencers do not care about your career prospects. They are anti-education because they are anti-critical thought.” Has the author ever spent time on a college campus? Critical thought is not encouraged. At all. Rather, you must agree with the thought of your professor or the institution or suffer the consequence in your grades. I nearly failed my ethics course because I disagreed with my professor’s philosophy, which she said was the only correct way to be ethical.

“Our education is not about adopting an ideology, but about becoming strong thinkers. This is essential to remember when Kirk says universities ‘force anti-American and progressive ideologies onto students.’” Again, has the author ever been in a science course on campus? You cannot be an open creationist. You must adopt the evolutionary ideology or you will be losing points. You must always guard what you say and watch any jokes you make as you must put diversity and inclusion above anything. And transgender people are allowed into opposite bathrooms. Progressive ideology is forced onto students. I’ve been to six colleges/universities throughout my educational career, and I have not seen an instance where this is not true. 

The author also complains about how most degrees in the social sciences, humanities, and liberal arts are often called useless, and provides a lack of evidence as to why they should not be called that. Explain to me what a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies will get you. Nothing except debt and a minimum wage job. How about a degree in ceramics? Nothing, except debt and a job in a ceramics studio, which you could have gotten without the degree. 

Now, for careers such as medicine and law, college is less of a scam. After all, one does need to learn those skills, and one would likely learn more from college than in an apprenticeship for the field. 

However, when you look at the job market, college is a very clear scam. My current full time job requires, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree. You do not need a degree to do my job. As long as you can read instructions, you could grab anyone off the street to do this job. I don’t want to tally up exactly how much my parents spent on my Associates, Bachelors, and Masters degrees. If you take the average, it would be somewhere in the ballpark of $115,000. And my Ph.D. I am funding without any scholarship will cost me around $40,000. There is no way that I’ve spent over $100,000 on my education to barely make half of that a year. College has made jobs require degrees, when the degree level is not always needed for the position. College is a scam, but I am still going for a Ph.D., and I will explain why. 

I do not want to send my future children to public school, especially with everything that is going on in the world. Each year, homeschool regulations tighten by state, and some states are doing everything they can to ensure kids can’t be homeschooled. They add restrictions on anything they can, including how educated the parent has to be. That is why I am getting my Ph.D. – the highest degree that I can so that there will not be any restriction due to a lack of education. Luckily, not all states are super strict, and I currently live in a state that allows homeschooling, but I don’t want laws to suddenly change by the time I have children, and have education be a barrier. That is why I am getting my Ph.D., even though I do believe that college is a scam. 

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