PurnaPhD wrote:"As a Millennial starting college, my Boomer parents's wisdom was still 'Study what you love, the rest will fall into place.' But mounting college tuition, student debt, recessions, wars, political chaos, and climate change now render that idealism quaint."Well said. We really need to do something about college tuition and invest in our state schools. A student should be able to choose to attend a high quality state institution AND not be in terrible debt at the end of four years. We have this idea that if our kids don't go to a top 10 or 20 school for undergrad that they're going to flounder in life. Nonsense. Instill in kids a love of learning, a solid work ethic, and how to be decent people (and not be materialistic consumers) and will they will be just fine.

PurnaPhD wrote:"As a Millennial starting college, my Boomer parents's wisdom was still 'Study what you love, the rest will fall into place.' But mounting college tuition, student debt, recessions, wars, political chaos, and climate change now render that idealism quaint."Well said. We really need to do something about college tuition and invest in our state schools. A student should be able to choose to attend a high quality state institution AND not be in terrible debt at the end of four years. We have this idea that if our kids don't go to a top 10 or 20 school for undergrad that they're going to flounder in life. Nonsense. Instill in kids a love of learning, a solid work ethic, and how to be decent people (and not be materialistic consumers) and will they will be just fine.

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