MikeRoweWorks Foundation CEO Mike Rowe argues that four-year college degrees are no longer seen as a source of pride by graduates on ‘Varney & Co.’ #foxbusiness #varney
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He has been saying this for years. I strongly disagree.
The breakdown in higher education became visible during the pandemic. It had been happening for many years.
Why would any American parent be okay with most university educating chinease students…send them home we have been at war since covid!!! Stop us using our tax dollars!
The best engineers are not from U.S. universities anymore!😂
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Raising my kids to be respectful to their teachers but don’t listen to anyone who tells you theirs no future without a college degree.
One of the biggest problems is you are required to take a dozen nonsense classes to get the class you actually need
My 4 year degree in elementary education would have made little difference in my ability to teach if not for that semester of student teaching under a magnificent teacher. At one point I began work on a master’s degree in education but dropped it when I realized it would do nothing to improve my ability to teach. They used different labels then (decades ago) but it amounted to dumbing down. They called it “self actualization”. Definition: it’s all about me. Years later I received an associate’s degree in accounting from a community college. Everything in my curriculum was necessary and useful in my work. Cheers for community colleges and their instructors.
100k a year 26 years old fire suppression technician no college degree. I would take 4 years of experience then 4 years of “education”
you shouldn't involve yourself with fascist propagandist traitors mike, you'll never get that stink off of you
all of my friends who went and got random degrees and found random jobs w companies where no one quite knew what they did are being let go in droves. the future is ai and trade skills, if you’re not able to beat ai then you better start learning a skill that won’t be taken over by it. companies are racing to the bottom.
I wouldn’t recommend a 4 year degree today.
I attended a conference with c suite executives recently and part of the discussion was about the lack of qualified recent graduates in the engineering field. They said that universities are producing inadequate unqualified engineers. They all agreed that their organizations are recruiting older engineers and even attempting to bring back former employees.
It's never existed you are only smart in the field of which you graduated.
I think the misconception is, the degree = knowledge. It never did. It represents you can push through a bunch of boring meaningless junk to pass the test. That requires discipline. Work is something nobody wants to do. School largely also is something most people would not do unless they had to. Proving that you can put up with structure and focus enough to get through the tests and get a grade means a lot. There are plenty of smart people that cannot get through school, and these people can also struggle in the same way at work. A small # hate school and are great at work, like einstein, but this still isnt the rule. Plenty of smart people just dont function at school or work. The degree proves that you can at least get through that type of thing. For trades, its worthless. This is why Europe has a different channel for people to get into the trades over the academic path. It makes tons of sense. I hated people saying you needed to know what they taught, you never did, you needed to prove you can get through the bs.
♥🇺🇸🦅🙌🙏👏🪃 the corpwhoreate giants are ALL about to fall, and NEVER get back up.
I grew up in the 80s. We were brow beaten to go to college as the only pathway to avoid homelessness. If you didn’t go to college you were looked down upon as a loser. I went to college for engineering. It worked out for me. But I know a lot of people who really never should have gone to college.
The overwhelming majority of college degrees have no marketability in 2024. STEM, business, and medicine are the only truly marketable degrees in the 2020s. And even when it comes to Developer jobs, if you can demonstrate strong skills in coding in relevant languages, as well as demonstrate understanding of Agile, you can often get a job without a degree. Going to a junior college to knock out 2-4 semesters (roughly 45-60 credit hours) of classes at a far cheaper rate/credit hour makes total sense. Or, go in the military, get marketable work experience, AND use your GI Bill after getting out to get one of the few marketable STEM or biz degrees.
Otherwise, learn a trade, e.g., welding, electrician, plumber, etc.
One of the highest paying technician Job is Transmission specialist. Most back yard mechanic won't even try this new transmission with this new solenoid shifters and computers. The most complicated tech is society is a transmission of a new car. A rebuilt transmission cost anywhere from 4000 to 10,000 dollars. Then a couple more for instillation. Most back yard mechanics will not attempt these new transmissions. Because of hardness of instillation If one makes a mistake. A good transmission guy could make 500,000 a year. In most profession today you need an 8-year degree to do any good. 4-year degrees just don't cut it anymore. That why the GI bill should give veterans 8 years of financing instead of 4 years. If you don't have anything but a high school diploma. All you can hope for is some business owner to train you and give you a chance in construction. If you're a migrant all you can do is clean floors and restrooms and wash dishes. Or get on all the social programs and live the good life for the rest of your life. Until all the social programs hit a brick wall with money.
and yet companies say that some of their most valuable programmers have never bothered to get a degree. They are too busy creating. if I went back to school today; I would look for vocational schooling in something like plumbing or construction.
College degree is a form of discrimination..
No, the breakdown in higher education did not break down during the pandemic; the pandemic only accelerated the breakdown already occurring.
It's all the worthless classes you have to take which have nothing to do with the actual field that drives up costs. Ridiculous
I have my bachelor and master's degrees. But in the 70's, a 5th grade education was vastly superior to any degrees being earned today. Graduates today are highly indoctrinated, and completely uneducated. If I was an employer today, I would not hire a college graduate, no way.
5:43 – My BS Electrical Engineering was a 5-year degree…
3:34 – I love watching welding videos on YT… couldn't get "shop" in high school because those facilities were reserved for the voc-ed students… engineers used to be expected to be able to weld…
Rowe is right on the money.
He is doing a wonderful thing.
So. Go ahead. Continue to pay outrageous tuitions for unqualified people to be paid outrageous salaries for being liars, cheats, and phonies. Universities and colleges are indoctrinated our children. They are teaching them hate. They are teaching them intolerance of other's beliefs. They say people are entitled to freedom of speech. Yet they spew out hate towards people who oppose them. Our. Children are being taught to hate America, by professors who never ever stepped into the real world. Hidden away on college campuses, for most of their lives.
Wake up people. These so called places of learning. Instead, they are just very expensive places of lies misinformation, and indoctrination. Businesses are wising up and looking elsewhere.
Colleges are a business first.
I wish Mike would bring up this point. Learn a trade, get good at it, start your own business.
computer knowledge is the most important thing for majority of jobs now
Mike Rowe would be the best president
Mike Rowe gets it. Skills keep you relevant and are much needed.
No degree and make 125k through trades. At certain levels if you’re pursuing leadership roles / engineering many will then take your experience but still require a degree. That seems to be slowly dwindling as well but how it still is in many places.
The problem is that too many colleges are indoctrinating our kids rather than educating them.
The cost to get a degree from a college should be limited by the average income of its graduates by law.
4 year degrees in general are worthless. Sports based free rides are shameful.
Only 4 year worth it is a bsn. Some 2 years are worth it and some 5 years are worth it such as engineering.
Decrease to 2 and half years😂
No matter who you hire you still got to train them because colleges don't teach them what they really need to know to do their job. I have trained recent college graduates to work as software developers but often times they lack the understanding of computer programming concepts and terminology.
(sigh) i agree
Hell all they do nowadays is brainwash kids into hating their own kind if they are white, hating the country, and trying to tell them they can be a woman just cause they say they are. I am glad I didn’t go to brainwash camp…I mean college.
College is a scam. Nothing but a cash grab
There is far too much far left brainwashing taking place in our universities. I don’t have a degree but I am far better off financially than my cousin that has a phd.
When I retired from the Air Force, I “went back to school”. My Hobby is to build and repair computers. I got a bachelor’s degree and with the exception for the mandatory theology course and philosophy course, I learned absolutely Nothing! I actually Corrected one of my professors more than once. I didn’t work very hard to get a 3.76 gpa. Sad but true.
I hope people are getting it because educated idiots are a liberal head ache.
Well said Mike Rowe!
For about six years I did delivery work in Southern California, out of an airport. Almost every time that I had a luggage or small freight delivery to a College/University or College Dormitory or reception area, I encountered the daftest, stoooopidest, and clueless people that I ever met. They are what supposedly got high G.P.A.'s in High School.
Often, they were rude and stupid and lazy. Some of the worst were at the "Claremont Colleges". About the only people at a College/University that seemed to have "common sense" were the reception desk (middle-aged woman) telephone operator/receptionist and the Janitor / Grounds Keeper, and the guy working the shipping-receiving dock area.
Tuition is far too high. NOBODY needs to spend four years reading "American or British Lit." or Psychobabble-try or Greek Philosophy and paying all that tuition $ for a worthless degree.
Learn how to be an 18 Wheel Truck Driver / Heavy Equipment Operator / Nurse, Doctor, Veterinarian / Electric-Telephone lineman / Carpenter-Brick layer / Welder / Plumber / Electrician / Auto-Truck mechanic / Horse Shoer / Farmer / Butcher-Meat Cutter / Baker
Cook /Fisherman -Boat repairer / HeatingAir Conditioner maker-repairer-installer / Chemist that can find a cure for diseases / Agricultural scientists and Water engineers that will make the deserts bloom by treating salt water into fresh water.There used to be value in a college education but they're no longer teaching the parts with value.
I think the US Government getting into the student loan business was a huge blunder. It is free money for colleges. Free money can be wasted. The cost of tuition has gone up something like 13% a year. Did the quality of education go up?
It is more important, to be able to show what you can do, instead of what you know.
Retired commercial aircraft technician. No college degree, no BS university diploma mill just a trade school license.. Lived a good career that paid the bills and supported a family. No regrets with no debt.
I'd rather be under a house welding.