Colleges or Apprenticeships

I think it is ridiculous that all of us are going to attend school for four years and emerge with nothing. Wait! You say, we will have our degrees. Yes, yes, but what does that really mean? For most of us outside of specialized majors such as nursing or engineering, it means we have no clue how to actually do our jobs. The only inkling we will have will come from a source outside of school: internships. Why do we have to attend these institutions then to be able to do our jobs? Colleges are just a big business. They are interested in money. They keep you in school for four years so that they can rack up your bill. The schools say it is to make you a well-rounded individual. WRONG! It is so you have to spend more money to take a bunch of required classes that are not even a part of your major. These are called general education classes and they generally teach you nothing educating. The obvious solution to this is to do away with the requirement of colleges for majors that would be much better suited to apprenticeships. We should revive the good old days of apprenticing to someone. The advantage of this is that you learn your job every day. You don’t learn equations you’ll never use or macroeconomics. You actually do what you will do by yourself eventually. That makes a lot more sense than throwing money down the college-fund pit.