Preparing for careers instead of just college

[bliptec]

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I wholeheartedly have to agree with this guy. Especially with the amount of money that people have to pay for college, there should be more opportunities for people to get the experience they need for the kinds of jobs they want.

[RoflKawpter]

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I wholeheartedly have to agree with this guy. Especially with the amount of money that people have to pay for college, there should be more opportunities for people to get the experience they need for the kinds of jobs they want.[/QUOTE]

Maybe with all his fancy education he can teach that textbook prices that McGraw-Hill charge (among other publishers) are there just to gouge the fuck out of students in university! :O

In reality, lots if not all of what he says is true!

[bliptec]

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;42842536]Maybe with all his fancy education he can teach that textbook prices that McGraw-Hill charge (among other publishers) are there just to gouge the fuck out of students in university! :O

In reality, lots if not all of what he says is true![/QUOTE]

Textbook pricing is very interesting actually. Textbook prices are naturally higher because of the limited audience and amount of effort required to lay out accurate technical information in a way that should be relatively easy for a person with minimal experience to learn. However, because of the current price point of textbooks, good textbooks that have been priced around the $30 range have actually suffered because of the mentality that "You pay for what you get."

Also, professors like having students use any textbook that they may have written. Which I think is a little sleezy, but also understandable because of how familiar a professor would be with a book he or she wrote.