Well Jesus H. I’m so fucking sick of “reduce tuition fees” and “solidarity marches” and WAH WAH WAH. Goddamn babies. I’m from one of those families that couldn’t afford to put me in sports leagues and so definitely couldn’t afford to put me through university. So you know what I did? I did not get a loan. I worked full-time while in school full-time, and I tried hard enough to succeed that I was granted scholarships to cover the majority of my tuition each year. I graduated with $0.00 debt. It’s possible, if you want it badly enough.
These whiney-ass entitled douchebags should be focusing their energy on making the government increase funding to SECONDARY schools; the resources should be available so that students are actually capable of succeeding in university before they get there. It sure must suck spending $45,000 on a degree and only get C’s because secondary schooling failed so horribly because the GOVERNMENT REDUCED THE BUDGET SO MUCH THAT class sizes are 35, resources are outdated, and standards are so low that labrador retrievers could pass the final exams.
Education is a right, not a privilege. But university is a privilege, no matter how you slice it. Pressure the government to improve secondary schooling and there MIGHT BE an increase in students who are able to both work and go to school while maintaining high grades. What happened to earning it? —Self-made aster
This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2011.
When I was at King’s there was a student, you know the type? Lefty, politically engaged, member of the student union, always agitating, first to organize a student walkout and rally at Government House to remind John Buchanan that students are our greatest natural resource (not coal?). So now I see his face on the posters littering the lightpoles and copper topped phalli downtown. It’s not always axiomatic that revolutions eat their children; sometimes the kids shank the parents when they don’t get everything they want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAKFlpdcfc
AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if all of the kids protesting for lower tuition would go for $0 tuition if we streamed them all between trade school and gymnasia at a young age, allowing both the poor and the well-off an equal opportunity to attend King’s or SMU? Of course, most of them would in fact NOT be attending King’s or SMU under this system, but it’d be fair, right?
Didn’t think so.
Take a walk thru SMU sometime, its a 3-year extension on Citadel High and all of the other high schools in Nova Scotia. We’re subsidizing THAT?!?
To be fair… Labrador’s ARE pretty smart…
Good for you OP! That’s impressive. I just finished paying off student loans last year and I’m 30.
Another Ayn Rand admirer sallies forth?
I though that cult died with its founder.
I completely agree OP. I had $21k in debt from student loans and paid it all back within 2 years after securing a very well-paying job when I graduated. These ass-crackers who complain they can’t afford university just don’t know how to handle finances correctly. I support increasing tuition…..maybe then these fat, lazy tards will realize the value of a dollar.
I am out of school relatively debt free. I was one of them poor kids. It is possible (especially thanks to NSCC).
I do not think it’s up to anyone but the university to decide how much they charge for their university. As a private institute it should remain private. I wouldn’t mind government aid to students but the government should remain out of the pricetag attached to the university itself.
But I do think that alternatives, such as the NSCC, advanced high school programs, and public libraries, should be funded to allow those who really can’t get the money to have a head start.
Education is life.
Couldn’t agree more.
welcome to education nova scotia. the land where you pay to learn how to go on welfare when you graduate college, because there are no jobs in your chosen field.
My parents couldn’t afford to put me through school. So I suffered through living at home for longer than was ideal and worked as much as I could buying only the essentials for four years. My student debt turned out to be a tenth of most of my classmates.
Don’t they have free post secondary education in some countries in Europe like we have free health care here?
I don’t know about all of Europe, snoop, but Germany did (still does?) have a sliding scale covering university support. The better your grades the less you pay. Smart kids from households that might not otherwise afford post-secondary schooling have a viable shot at things.
Props to those who work their way through; though it’s fair to note not everyone can, there are exceptions.
France also has an amazing system with complementary university I do believe…
Taxes in these countries are very high — that’s the trade off.
France also, however, has one of the best, if not the best (I think denmark might have a better system, I’m not sure) health care system(s) in the world.
I refuse to pay any more taxes to subsidize some brat from Ontario, or from here, and his “higher education”. Get it based on your own merits bud, and get your fucking hand out of my wallet
I might sound like a total bitch here, but I don’t WANT access to higher education made easier. More people getting degrees = my degrees aren’t worth as much. It’s all about inflation, guys (or something), and the less people with degrees out there, the better it is for those of us who DO have them.
What DOES bug me, though, are the idiots they let into universities these days. They really need to beef up the grade requirements and raise the AP cut off GPA (most universities is 2.0…Acadia’s is 1.5…how fucked up is THAT? raise it to 2.5 across the board). Meanwhile, there are brilliant people out there who SHOULD be getting degrees or should have them and don’t (for whatever reason). Some of the most brilliant people I know don’t actually have university degrees, and some of the dumbest people I know have degrees (even grad degrees! and they’re dumb as bricks!)…and what REALLY gets me is, my degree with my high GPA is worth the same as half the people I went to school with with a GPA barely scraping the minimum required to graduate!
Hey PK… I bet today is an excellent day in your books.
hopefully if you get off by 2… you’ll be home by 9.
🙂
unless you’re staying home and have written today off as a ‘celebration’ of the winter….
Aww thanks, zed 🙂 You’re a doll!
When I was in university, we turned down a tuition freeze – we knew it would only screw over the younger kids coming into the system when the freeze ended and tuition would have probably doubled. My parents couldn’t pay, I had some savings but I worked my ass off and it still wasn’t enough. I will be paying student loans for a long time, but was it worth it? Hell yeah.
3 words sum up the value of post secondary education.
Montrealman. Montrealman, Montrealman.
OH DAMN >: 0
Ivan… two words of warning…
be careful
http://www.inpapasbasement.com/wp-content/…
Lesson learned. I am chagrined >: (
Over the last twenty years, while our federal government (like others) was implementing “free” trade agreements, making the world safe for capitalism, anyone who objected to the destruction of domestic manufacturing and resource jobs was told in condescending tones that in the “New World Order” Canadians would become “knowledge workers”. We would work with our brains while others around the globe worked with their hands.
It was bullshit then and guess what? It’s still bullshit.
Capital has migrated around the globe, from one jurisdiction to the next, alighting on cheap labour and lax regulatory regimes. And anyone who believed we would become “knowledge workers” has since woken up to the reality that folks in India and China are just as good at IT, engineering and science as we are.
My point (and I do have one) is that folks who scorn the value of post-secondary education should ask themselves what exactly they think has been going on over the last two decades.
I know the answer to that question.
The CH posted a picture from the protest last year and the kid had the woolest sweater I have ever seen. Anyone remember that pic?
I say march all you want, it’s good exercise. Changes zilch.
A lot of them have Canada Goose jackets now so at least they’ll be warm.
I agree with the OP wholeheartedly, however I would like to point out that jobs are quite scarce at the moment so it may not be as easy as you say to find a well paying job. That being said, I do agree that education is a privilege and that kids these days are taking their parents’ wallets for granted. Work for something on your own for once. I know a girl who’s 21 and has never worked a real day of work in her life. I know someone else who’s 19 whose parents won’t allow her to have a job. What a good moral to instill on your children – you don’t have to work a day in your life but you’ll still get everything handed to you!
attention people going into hellschool…go for the co-op work program. thank you, that is all