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hmm..Assbag...**Fumes, glares.** He's a stupid little shitface..I figure since most of you all are really into the arts and such..^_^ That you'd like to have a nice friendly little chat with the...thing... that wrote this...**Mumbles other incoherent obscenities.** Carolyn if you get on, you should have a ball...
(from the April 7th Red Deer College Bricklayer)
As a fellow student enrolled in commerce, I believe it is time for stuents to realize that nothing in life is free. It is time to realize our tuition is too low and we are subsidizing too many ridculous programs such as Fine Arts.
Post-secondary educational institutions were originally built to produce professionals that enhance our society, such as lawyers, medical staff, business leaders, engineers, teachers etc; not musicians, costume designers or any other type of glorified professional "FINE ARTS" students.
If our post-secondary institutions were able to focus on what they were originally designed for, we would not have shortages of professionals like nurses and doctors. Why do we have a shortage of nurses yet have a waiting list to become one?
The reason is simple; money has been taken away from faculties like nursing to support unnecessary programs, such as Fine Arts, and in essence, limiting the ability for more important faculties such as nursing and teaching to expand.
Don't get me wrong, the Arts are important, but there are specialized institutions people can attend to take Arts. RDC is not one of these institutions.
I for one would much rather have government funding our health care system than wasting money on facilities and programs in instituions such as RDC, that do not produce real, useful professionsals that advance society. If anything we should be paying the larger proportion of the cost of tuition, not the smaller subsidized chunk to attend post-secondary institutions. Why should a rig hand working in -40 temperatures be subsidizing my education when I am going to school to hopefully make more money, have a better life and be all around more profitable then he/she?
Secondary institutions were designed to produce a more educated society and should not be confused with post-secondary institutions that were built to produce professionals. More funding should go to enhancing secondary educational institutions, many of which suffer from lack of funding.
I believe every person should have equal oppurtunity to go to a post secondary institution; this is why we have existing student funding programs to help aid a person in his/her endeavours. A lot of people are happy paying for their own education; our tuition in Canada is still substantially lower then those people just south of the border.
However, some people believe that post secondary instituion hsould be free or subsidized to the extreme. Take into consideration countries like Austria and Germany where taxes are through the roof, they are not any better off, in fact their economies are in shambles, and are not competitive on a global market.
Sure you are going to get the people that say our student funding is inadequate, that they have to work two minimum wage jobs, that we need more money from the government, that younger people have it easier, etc. When i all reality people have to make better personal choices, a minimum wage job is for an unskilled worker or for a 15 year old. If someone makes too much money to receive student loans, but cannot afford to pay tuition, then obviously they are not making the best personal choices.
For example I live away from home, pay for school, tuition, books, rent, food and have a social life all WITHOUT the backing of my parents or any type of student funding. How do I do this? Easy, I make personal sacrifices in the summer to make enough money to pay for my education and become a professional one day.
We don't need more profs/buildings/funding, etc; we need to focus on feasible programs and cut ones that are not viable. We need a more effecient edcuational system that gives students the option to attend school in the summer, not a condensed spring semester but a full four months. This would lower our oppurtunity cost as aspiring students to becoming professionals. People have to remember that post secondary education is not a right, it is a privilege.
Niclas Haglund
Niclas_Haglund@hotmail.com
Right, in other news..I don't think I'll ever be able to a. ) eat Turkey again, or b.) be able to drive with birds flying around ever again...
I hate birds...and I'm pretty sure that I've a glass shard embedded into my finger, and it hurts. Yup.
Lily's toga party was the best! I hope she had fun. I mean come on, yay! ^_^
Yeah, otherwise, I'm bored, and I had fun at the build...making bricks is sooo fun..>.<
Right, I'm going to go do something productive..like, kill things..^_^
Love you all muchly! I'll see you all tomorrow or some such..
(from the April 7th Red Deer College Bricklayer)
As a fellow student enrolled in commerce, I believe it is time for stuents to realize that nothing in life is free. It is time to realize our tuition is too low and we are subsidizing too many ridculous programs such as Fine Arts.
Post-secondary educational institutions were originally built to produce professionals that enhance our society, such as lawyers, medical staff, business leaders, engineers, teachers etc; not musicians, costume designers or any other type of glorified professional "FINE ARTS" students.
If our post-secondary institutions were able to focus on what they were originally designed for, we would not have shortages of professionals like nurses and doctors. Why do we have a shortage of nurses yet have a waiting list to become one?
The reason is simple; money has been taken away from faculties like nursing to support unnecessary programs, such as Fine Arts, and in essence, limiting the ability for more important faculties such as nursing and teaching to expand.
Don't get me wrong, the Arts are important, but there are specialized institutions people can attend to take Arts. RDC is not one of these institutions.
I for one would much rather have government funding our health care system than wasting money on facilities and programs in instituions such as RDC, that do not produce real, useful professionsals that advance society. If anything we should be paying the larger proportion of the cost of tuition, not the smaller subsidized chunk to attend post-secondary institutions. Why should a rig hand working in -40 temperatures be subsidizing my education when I am going to school to hopefully make more money, have a better life and be all around more profitable then he/she?
Secondary institutions were designed to produce a more educated society and should not be confused with post-secondary institutions that were built to produce professionals. More funding should go to enhancing secondary educational institutions, many of which suffer from lack of funding.
I believe every person should have equal oppurtunity to go to a post secondary institution; this is why we have existing student funding programs to help aid a person in his/her endeavours. A lot of people are happy paying for their own education; our tuition in Canada is still substantially lower then those people just south of the border.
However, some people believe that post secondary instituion hsould be free or subsidized to the extreme. Take into consideration countries like Austria and Germany where taxes are through the roof, they are not any better off, in fact their economies are in shambles, and are not competitive on a global market.
Sure you are going to get the people that say our student funding is inadequate, that they have to work two minimum wage jobs, that we need more money from the government, that younger people have it easier, etc. When i all reality people have to make better personal choices, a minimum wage job is for an unskilled worker or for a 15 year old. If someone makes too much money to receive student loans, but cannot afford to pay tuition, then obviously they are not making the best personal choices.
For example I live away from home, pay for school, tuition, books, rent, food and have a social life all WITHOUT the backing of my parents or any type of student funding. How do I do this? Easy, I make personal sacrifices in the summer to make enough money to pay for my education and become a professional one day.
We don't need more profs/buildings/funding, etc; we need to focus on feasible programs and cut ones that are not viable. We need a more effecient edcuational system that gives students the option to attend school in the summer, not a condensed spring semester but a full four months. This would lower our oppurtunity cost as aspiring students to becoming professionals. People have to remember that post secondary education is not a right, it is a privilege.
Niclas Haglund
Niclas_Haglund@hotmail.com
Right, in other news..I don't think I'll ever be able to a. ) eat Turkey again, or b.) be able to drive with birds flying around ever again...
I hate birds...and I'm pretty sure that I've a glass shard embedded into my finger, and it hurts. Yup.
Lily's toga party was the best! I hope she had fun. I mean come on, yay! ^_^
Yeah, otherwise, I'm bored, and I had fun at the build...making bricks is sooo fun..>.<
Right, I'm going to go do something productive..like, kill things..^_^
Love you all muchly! I'll see you all tomorrow or some such..