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When academics put their best foot forward, it's not as impressive as the one the traveling salesman of yore jammed in the door.
1 posted on 03/15/2018 6:39:48 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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The only purpose of higher education is to gain a skill, cost-effectively, that people will pay you to do.


2 posted on 03/15/2018 6:42:24 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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This from a guy who didn’t discipline a BLM mob who ran through his school library screaming at and harassing white students who were studying there. Put aside the educational issue, I’d be afraid for my kids’ safety if they went to Yale.


3 posted on 03/15/2018 6:43:59 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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...the drop in confidence in higher education was due 'almost entirely to growing skepticism among Americans without four-year degrees.'"

So it's the uneducated people, the deplorables, who have this hair-brained idea. Sure.

5 posted on 03/15/2018 6:50:06 AM PDT by ladyjane
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My first child went to the Navy out of high school, he has a decent job near me at the local VA as a cook, he was trained to be a Submariner cook, does not make all that much money compared to his younger sister.

She graduated 10 years ago with a degree in business emphasis in marketing, from University of Oregon, Lundquist School of Business. Making $105,000 a year at 33 single. She got her foot in the door with her first job, but what she is doing now, Digital Analytics, for a big marketing firm and their client Microsoft, she did not learn in college.

Third child too smart for college dropped out after two years to start his own business being a chimney sweep. He is in a dangerous, hard and dirty job, but seems to like it very much, and is doing better than both his older brother and sister. All three own homes.

8 posted on 03/15/2018 7:18:53 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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The value of a college education is based on a simple logical fallacy—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

The fact that you received a college education and earned more does not prove that the college education caused you to earn more.

Bet they don’t teach that one at Yale!

(Hint: Smart kids tend to go to college because that is expected. If they didn’t go to college they might have high earnings anyway.)


10 posted on 03/15/2018 7:24:26 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Ben Shapiro loves to use great comedy by using hyperbole to point out the uselessness of “stupid” degrees with the mythical “lesbian dance” degree.


11 posted on 03/15/2018 7:49:27 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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“Obviously a Yale man.”

Thurston Howell III


13 posted on 03/15/2018 8:19:01 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Anyone who wants to spend seventy grand a year so their child can learn there’s 17 genders... or discover how to hate people who believe in God... should have their head examined.

The only reason this sh*t from Yale - Peter Salovey - wants middle class kids coming to his indoctrination center is to keep kids of ‘liberal elites’ puffed up about their FALSE SENSE of superiority.

Don’t waste your money... STOP FEEDING EDUCATION FACTORIES.... don’t sell out your children. Oh and I’m a deplorable with a college degree...


18 posted on 03/16/2018 2:10:05 PM PDT by GOPJ (Blaming the NRA for what liberals have caused. - freeper I want the USA back)
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