Comments on: Standing Strong http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/ A Christian Conservative addressing the Issues Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Kristyn http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-334 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:32:23 +0000 http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-334 If God has led you down a path that does not include college, I believe that is wonderful! I feel that the Lord is leading me to go to college and follow a passion he has laid on my heart for years. My mother is a homeschooling mom of five children. She never want to college. She hasn't had trouble teaching her children anymore than another person. I strongly believe that you can learn and enhance your knowledge without going to college and deeling with the trash that comes along with it all. If God has led you down a path that does not include college, I believe that is wonderful! I feel that the Lord is leading me to go to college and follow a passion he has laid on my heart for years.
My mother is a homeschooling mom of five children. She never want to college. She hasn’t had trouble teaching her children anymore than another person.
I strongly believe that you can learn and enhance your knowledge without going to college and deeling with the trash that comes along with it all.

]]> by: Garrett Boon http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-333 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:53:41 +0000 http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-333 For what it is worth: I have a good friend that graduated from GA Tech as rocket scientist (Aerospace Engineering). He was a former homeschooler. The most startling thing he told me is that most college graduates only retain 20% of the knowledge learned in the classroom. For what it is worth:

I have a good friend that graduated from GA Tech as rocket scientist (Aerospace Engineering). He was a former homeschooler. The most startling thing he told me is that most college graduates only retain 20% of the knowledge learned in the classroom.

]]> by: Mom http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-332 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:15:17 +0000 http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-332 Well done! Actually according to an article in USA Today in 2005, 64% of students went to college and over the last 10 years only 74% of students that start college finish. This means that 48% of High School graduates will graduate from college (if my math is correct :) Although those statistics are "good", in just the field of engineering and science only 19% to 21% of bachelor degree students work in the field of their degree according to www.nsf.gov/statistics. On the Dave Ramsey financial show this Thursday, a young lady (24) called in to the show. She and her husband both graduated from college with bachelor degrees. She has a new baby and is working making $18,000 a year and her husband who is working in his degree field is making $40,000 a year fresh out of college and they have $180,000 in student loans for both of their bachelor degrees. Dave Ramsey, rightly so, said they were foolish to go into that kind of debt to earn a combine total of $58,000 and be strapped for YEARS with that kind of debt. They can not even buy a home now. Their student loan payment is $700 a month. Making good decisions based on God's revealed will for your life as well as using wisdom in the matter of finances is best. Choosing to go to college for the sake of going or pleasing others when God has already opened the door for you to follow his leading and work/volunteer in the areas of your passions would be foolish. I know that our belief is that you would always continue to learn and grow in both the things of God and things pertaining to your field of interest, but that after homeschooling for 11 years, it needs to be from "College" because that is mainstream even among homeschoolers is not true. Education comes in many forms...reading...internships...volunteering....camps and programs are all sufficient means of continuing learning. You are blessed in the fact that we are following the practical wisdom of God's ways of having you remain under your father's roof and his provision until you court and get married. Therefore, there is no pressure for you to obtain a degree in order to "financially support" yourself, which is the primary purpose of those seeking degrees. To be able to spend your time serving God until you spend time serving your own family too is a great gift from the Lord. ENJOY IT! Well done! Actually according to an article in USA Today in 2005, 64% of students went to college and over the last 10 years only 74% of students that start college finish. This means that 48% of High School graduates will graduate from college (if my math is correct :)
Although those statistics are “good”, in just the field of engineering and science only 19% to 21% of bachelor degree students work in the field of their degree according to www.nsf.gov/statistics. On the Dave Ramsey financial show this Thursday, a young lady
(24) called in to the show. She and her husband both graduated from college with bachelor degrees. She has a new baby and is working making $18,000 a year and her husband who is working in his degree field is making $40,000 a year fresh out of college and they have $180,000 in student loans for both of their bachelor degrees. Dave Ramsey, rightly so, said they were foolish to go into that kind of debt to earn a combine total of $58,000 and be strapped for YEARS with that kind of debt. They can not even buy a home now. Their student loan payment is $700 a month.

Making good decisions based on God’s revealed will for your life as well as using wisdom in the matter of finances is best. Choosing to go to college for the sake of going or pleasing others when God has already opened the door for you to follow his leading and work/volunteer in the areas of your passions would be foolish. I know that our belief is that you would always continue to learn and grow in both the things of God and things pertaining to your field of interest, but that after homeschooling for 11 years, it needs to be from “College” because that is mainstream even among homeschoolers is not true. Education comes in many forms…reading…internships…volunteering….camps and programs are all sufficient means of continuing learning. You are blessed in the fact that we are following the practical wisdom of God’s ways of having you remain under your father’s roof and his provision until you court and get married. Therefore, there is no pressure for you to obtain a degree in order to “financially support” yourself, which is the primary purpose of those seeking degrees. To be able to spend your time serving God until you spend time serving your own family too is a great gift from the Lord. ENJOY IT!

]]> by: Screech http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-330 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:14:48 +0000 http://www.kpaulino.com/2007/04/13/standing-strong/#comment-330 When you say you're not going to college, do you mean you're not doing any higher education at all, or you're just doing something like distance learning where you don't have to be on a campus all the time? I won't say you're wrong if you mean you won't do any higher education, but I would tend to think that you're limiting yourself somewhat. If you at least plan to be a homeschooling parent, you would probably want to take some basic courses...but hey, if you think God wants you to stay away from college, that's fine. When you say you’re not going to college, do you mean you’re not doing any higher education at all, or you’re just doing something like distance learning where you don’t have to be on a campus all the time?

I won’t say you’re wrong if you mean you won’t do any higher education, but I would tend to think that you’re limiting yourself somewhat. If you at least plan to be a homeschooling parent, you would probably want to take some basic courses…but hey, if you think God wants you to stay away from college, that’s fine.

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