A college degree is absolutely vital for a limited number of professional positions involving special technical knowledge and training that one is unable to easily acquire by osmosis / on the job training.ie:
Applied Sciences-which would include chemists,mathematicians, engineers, astronomists and medical doctors
Historians-which would include lawyers, archiologists, and only at the higher levels, teachers.
The rest of the people with various liberal arts or other invented degrees...are stooges who spent a lot of money in tuition to avoid accepting the reality that they wasted their time and money to salve their fragile egos about their supposed superiority over their more productive neighbors.
Everyone else paid a lot of money for
“The rest of the people with various liberal arts or other invented degrees...are stooges who spent a lot of money in tuition to avoid accepting the reality that they wasted their time and money to salve their fragile egos about their supposed superiority over their more productive neighbors.”
I do not believe that this was ALWAYS true. There was a time when being “well-rounded” or wise and knowledgeable was worth something, and a liberal arts degree COULD help this along.
So are you saying that getting a degree in Lesbian Dance Theory with a Minor in Self Esteem Awareness won’t get me a high paying career???