Posted on 02/13/2015 12:39:24 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".......For decades now, America's higher education system has poorly served Americans.If you can weld,you can land a job making six-figures tomorrow.If you recently acquired a B.A. in sociology,well, can you tell me how you do that thing where you make the foam on top a latte look like a heart?There's a reason why the lack of a college degree is practically celebrated in Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg,Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are all college dropouts. Peter Thiel says a college "diploma is a dunce hat in disguise" and wants to blow the higher-ed system up entirely. Sixty-three of the people on the Forbes400 don't have college degree.
Pointing all this out is not to devalue education. I,for one,am glad Howard Dean went to medical school before becoming a doctor. But most liberal arts degrees are overrated as a precondition for success and they are indisputably overpriced--hence the current student loan crisis. In the Internet era,here are many,many new ways to become educated.This sudden suspicion of Scott Walker seems a product of the fact that higher education is a world that liberals control utterly,and the entire economic model supporting it is on the verge of collapse.If the American people start to get hip to the idea that people such as Mark Zuckerberg and,yes,Scott Walker can succeed without a degree,well,that's one less power base for liberals—and a lot more independently educated voters who are going to think for themselves.
As he runs for president, I hope that Democrats lodge this criticism of Walker loudly and often. It's high time we had a robust public debate on the value of a college degree,and whether or not subsidizing the ivory tower is worth it. And I suspect that Scott Walker would emerge from such a national conversation looking like a very good candidate indeed.
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Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark. Well played sir.
You said it! I do have an associates degree, but bet your behind I am making a lot more than many people with a batchelors degree.
I owe it to: God, mid-west work ethic, Army, and will power.
Did Barry Soetoro attend college as a US Citizen or a foreigner?
What do you suppose might be the educational background of the various folks who produced the computer you're using to post on Free Republic?
Gotta disagree with you. I’m all in for Ted Cruz.
No lawyers
No Ivy Leaguers
we need a break
(and The Cruzer ran behind mediocre Mitt in Texas, that doesn’t seem very inspiring)
And he stomped Dewhurst who had the GOPe backing him. That was inspiring to me.
All the folks who have destroyed our health care system, the economy, our military, and our foreign policy over the past six years, have all had degrees.
All of the folks referred to in the above line are politicians, the overwhelming majority of which all have college degrees of one sort of another. The article intimates that Gov. Walker’s needs to have a college degree to hold higher office.
So far I don’t see a college degree as a career enhancer.
This line is written in the context of the first line. I.E. A college degree is not necessary to successfully discharge the duties of President of the United States, and given the results obtained by the current administration, a college degree is not an indicator of future performance.
Your post to me: What do you suppose might be the educational background of the various folks who produced the computer you're using to post on Free Republic?
I don’t see what the people who produce computers have to do with what I posted but I’ll answer anyway.
I have no idea, but since most of the PCs and Macs we use are assembled in Asia where labor is cheaper, I would assume that a H.S. education would suffice.
Now the designers of the processors, motherboards, video cards, math co-processors, power supplies, as well as the designers of the software that run on the PC mostly have college degrees. Of course these fine folks have nothing to do with what I posted.
Be well my FRiend, and God Bless.
Thank you.
I'm getting rather fed up with what seems to me an incessant chorus of ranting against colleges and college education as being universally worthless.
As for Scott Walker ... I like his resume just fine.
I believe he meditated for a couple of hours after leaving college, which gives him the equivalent of a gender and ethnic studies double major.
Right now he is my top pick for POTUS.
The general “vibe” I get is that degrees in the hard sciences, mathematics, economics, engineering, and medicine are held in high regard on FR.
The degrees in psychology, political science, liberal arts in general and degrees that end in “studies” in particular are a much harder sell around here.
My impression, and it’s just my opinion, is that when FReepers are baggin’ on college degrees, they may not be making the distinction I just did.
BTW, I got’s me one of them thar dee-grees, so I would not be one to disparage a good one.
Thank you for allowing me to clarify my earlier post.
Not true at all. He's looking for sensational headlines by generalizing with this statement. A degree opens many doors for folks. For long-term earning power, a college degree makes sense for many.
However, I do feel many college graduates are ill-prepared for the workforce when they graduate.
George Washington had a land surveyor’s certificate but he had no college degree.....neither did Abraham Lincoln.....so the Left’s point is........???????
I bet he has more grades to show than Obama.
I’m okay with those groupings but will not vote for a Gooberman.
The father of my best friend from high school didn’t have a college education yet ended up with a big engineering firm and retired wealthy and left his kids a lot when he passed. At his funeral, a close friend of his described him as “self educated and very well educated”. I would have to agree - he struck me as one of the most intelligent individuals I ever talked with and he also remained comfortably down to earth.
I didn’t finish college.
I started and ran a business for 25 years and retired at 51 in good health.
Glad I quit when I did or I would Never have been in the position I am today.
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