Posted on 02/19/2015 10:38:35 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Howard Dean has been under fire after criticizing Wisconsin Governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Scott Walker for never getting a college degree. He dropped out of college during his senior year to get a job for the Red Cross. Walker went on' The Kelly File' to dispute Dean's claims that he is 'unknowledgeable'.
The GOP governor wasn't the only person fighting back against the comments from a man most famous for screaming himself out of the Democratic Primary. Mike Rowe took to his Facebook page to address the issue in a great post about education in America and what it has become.
The former host of 'Dirty Jobs' starts off by recounting how he got his first job at QVC, despite 'no qualifications to speak of'. He told how he was asked to sell a #2 pencil for 8 minutes, which is no easy task. Once hired, he was tasked with selling random products during the graveyard shift, which he called 'a crucible of confusion and ambiguity, and in hindsight, the best training I ever had.'
After explaining his on the job training he ripped the skill gap and debt our current college system has created:
I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning. And I think that making elected office contingent on a college degree is maybe the worst idea I've ever heard.
Check out his full post below:
(Excerpt) Read more at 970wfla.com ...
Mike Rowe - sanity and common sense!
The comments are all about Walker.
I work in the nuclear power industry.
The most highly respected people are those that have Navy nuclear plant experience. Their level of schooling isn’t a factor
He may have been enrolled, but there is no record he ever studied or attended class.
” Their level of schooling isn’t a factor”
Nope, but their level of training is.
Brilliant response by Mike Rowe!
Better link: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe/photos/a.151342491542569.29994.116999698310182/944284522248358/?type=1
I could not see it previously because the adware/malware extension on this browser was set to block unnecessary links, and since I normally do not waste any time posting on phasebook or the twit site for example, I was unable to read his full comments.
Well said, Mike Rowe.
I didn’t go to college and it was a choice. I could have gone to a junior college and then maybe to a four year school to get a degree but I would have piled up a bunch of debt. Then I’d have to work for years to pay off the debt and THEN save up to buy a house and then end up in my forties wanting a family and struggling to have a baby.
Instead I skipped college, got married, and will be having my sixth baby in September.
When my former friends are trying to have kids I’ll be having grandkids.
They can keep their degrees and their careers and their debt, thank you very much.
PING FOR LATER
Mike Rowe for president 2016!
You forgot “Jimmeh” Carter. He graduated 59 out of 820 at Annapolis.
Mike Rowe is clearly more knowledgable than Howard Dean.
Eight of the fifteen attendees at the Wannsee Conference, where the extermination of Europe’s Jews was planned, had doctorates (either PhDs or JDs or both). Such is the value of education.
Screamin Deano is the epitome of the phony, condescending East Coast “educated” snob
A Loser to the nth degree
Keep on screamin, Howie. You were so much smarter than the rest of us, you screamed right out of contention. Way to make an ass out of yourself in perpetuity.
People should read Michael Medved's autobiography Right Turns, especially describing his years at Yale University. Indeed, Medved's own hitchhiking trips all over the USA during his years at Yale opened him up to parts of the USA that many on the Left would NEVER visit; it showed that the premise of the movie Easy Rider was totally wrong, too.
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