[Cincinatus' Wife]

We've been suckered into thinking we need Big Education (and be happy and willing to foot the bill - and go into long-term debt for it), get credentialed (and the required social engineering classes) to earn a living.

Have you seen the billion dollar endowment funds many colleges are sitting on?

And Obama wants us to now foot the bill for a 2-year free college education to extend the time until you can't go out and find a job. He also wants to play Santa Clause and forgive the $1.16 Trillion student loan debt - taxpayer funded relief.

Years ago a 1st to 8th grade education imparted a LOT of knowledge.

Now pre-K to 12th grade is so filled with things other than reading, writing and arithmetic (and remedial class in your first year of college is required for many in......reading, writing and math).

But the unions protect their teachers - Gov. Scott Walker could tell you stories about the 5 month union siege of the Wisconsin state capitol in 2011.

[left that other site]

I don’t have one...and I teach Music theory at the College Level, and prepare people for auditions and entrance exams!

(I am self-taught and self-employed)

[biggredd1]

harvard law scumbag says $9 trillion debt is unpatriotic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q

[Genoa]

A bachelor’s degree from many colleges and universities is hardly worth the trouble it took to get it. And when it comes to training a young person to analyze and think for themselves, it is often several steps in the wrong direction.

[rktman]

Sometimes, common sense and an “I get it” mind set can help you succeed. Not saying that I posses either, I worked my way up from a labor grade 7 mechanic to a supervisor, test conductor, and eventually a field propulsion engineer and worked for the same employer for 36 years. Boy did I fool them. :>}

[Slyfox]

Half of our Founding Fathers did not go to college.

But then again, the education of those who did graduate with a BA was equal to getting a PhD today.

[manc]

I have never understood why many companies need a college degree, hell even most police agencies today require degrees.

[lavaroise]

Last thing we need is college seen as a badge of maturity

One should feel ashamed to depend on parents until age 30 going to college.

[Pollster1]

Cruz and Walker have dramatically different educational backgrounds. Walker is technically a college drop-out, but he is clearly intelligent and skilled enough to do the job (the average garden vegetable is intelligent enough to do the job better than Barack Hussein Obama, but we need someone exceptional to fix the current mess, and Walker may be that good).

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton, and then magna cum laude from Harvard Law, and few people in the world have better educational credentials, and he is also intelligent and skilled enough to do the job. While Cruz actually earned the same law credential that Obama was awarded as an affirmative action gesture, I won't hold that superficial similarity against Cruz.

At this level, the credentials are irrelevant.

[deadrock]

Anyone who doesn't believe;
that the big government is the answer to all problems,
that it knows how to spend your money better than you,
that rights and liberty flow from the state,
that feminism is about equality,
that all cultures are equal,
that all men are possible rapists,
etc.

Then you are an idiot, regardless of your qualifications or education. Commies are smarter, don't you know.

[TexasCajun]

[thirst4truth]

He deserves an honorary degree. Shame on any college in his state that has not bestowed that on him yet!

Can Hillsdale college give him an honorary? Would that be delicious?

[rainee]

I honestly believe in street smarts vs book smarts. I know plenty of people who have degrees but wouldn’t be able to cut it in a sales position or others that involve customer interaction. Super smart on paper but not people persons. You can’t teach personality.

[clamper1797]

Too late ....

[Cyclone59]

Ok, if the left wants to make it policy that we see the grade of out politicians, then let's see ALL of the report cards for our current president. <> They stepped in it when they were trying to tell us that Bush was dumber than Kerry - then we found out it was the opposite.

[RayChuang88]

If you want to find out getting an Ivy League degree isn't such a great idea at times, go read Michael Medved's autobiography Right Turns. Just his description of his multiple hitchhiking trips across the USA and Canada when he was a student at Yale University shows he found out a lot more about "flyover country" than most Ivy League college graduates will ever experience.

In short, unless your degree is in business, (maybe) law or one of the hard sciences, it isn't worth the diploma paper it's printed on.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t disagree, but the main problem is that too many employers have drunk the Kool-Aid put out there by the educational establishment that a Bachelors Degree is the minimum qualification needed to do any sort of responsible job.

I personally have found that the more elite the college the candidate earned his degree from, the more incompetent he is in the real world. And the more likely that employers who see that on his resume will nevertheless have a multiple-orgasm then start lining up to write him checks regardless.

[B-Cause]

V.P. of Sales at Fortune 500 company told us that in his opinion:

“A college degree was nothing but a piece of paper that says you sat on your a?? for four years!”

[Conscience of a Conservative]

The issue I have with Walker is not that he doesn’t have a college degree (who cares?), but that he has essentially zero private-sector work experience.

[bkopto]

Scott Walker’s lack of a college degree....

This is a feature, not a bug.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

People need to say this more: There IS such a thing as TOO MUCH education!