Student Debt And Student Loans
In this case and perspective, it was worth it. Some students believe that they are better off working straight out of high school rather than getting students loans and going to any sort of college. “You can’t flip a college degree the way you can flip a stock, or even a home. But what bubble believers are really saying is that young people today are radically overestimating the economic value of going to college, and that many of them would be better off doing something else with their time and money” (Avery, Turner; 165). Getting a higher education is more important than having to pay off student loans. Higher education will get the student the money he/she needs in order to pay off the student loans that they have received. “Higher education is widely viewed as the key to a wide range of pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits in later life- outcomes such as higher incomes, greater status, or an improved lifestyle” (Lightman, Connell; 132). The students that do not have money, but have a very good and positive outlook have this perspective. They are the students that feels like nothing that cannot hold them back, no matter what comes their