Reply #139: Right now, this RN with a finance degree is having to learn [View All]

several new fields: I have been learning about speech therapy, sign language, behavior therapy, etc for the last five years. I'll probably never get a degree for it, but to my autistic son and his nonautistic brother, I think this will be invaluable.

I don't believe in a "wasted" education, and I'm not all that upset about slots at Ivy League universities "being taken up" like this.

I am more worried, however about higher education becoming more out of the reach of middle and low income people. And that may be a function of a growing population and greater competition to get in. But I don't begrudge any woman getting a good education. You never know when or how it will be used.