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Is Higher Education Worth the Cost?

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  Is college worth its high price tag? This question is extremely prevalent in our society considering it is hard to find a higher education for less than $40,000-$60,000 or more per year. At the same time, the college has been stressed as an utmost importance for my whole life. I know I am not the only one, but my parents always said that I would go to college to study something. My parents are very open people so I am now studying dance, but it was never a secret to me that I would go to college to get a good job. I know that in the early 2000s the price of college was significantly less, making this expectation easier to obtain. But now with the job market and the price of schools, we are questioning whether it is a smart choice to spend so much on education if your after-school prospects are not that much better.  In the readings and documentary, nobody was saying that college is a waste, or that secondary education is a bad thing or unworthy or price. Instead, the sources...