Small reason why I believe vocational/technical high schools and colleges to be as good as or better than some colleges.
I don’t have a college education, but you put something in front of me and if it’s not extremely heavy, it’ll be put together. Various things around the home can also be fixed as well. I could also hold conversations with a large variety of people, including NASA scientists.
Education is by no means a measure of one’s common sense.
Her NRA sticker stood for No Real Ability
That’s part of what I love about the First Dude: how he hasn’t bought into the everyone-should-go-to-college bit and has been actively promoting voc ed.
I do have a college education and couldn't agree with you more. The problem as I see it, is an inversion that has occurred between academia and society at large over the past century.
There was a time when people who were goal oriented and knew what they wanted in life went into academia to prepare themselves for careers as architects, actors, writers, accountants, business managers, biologists, engineers, etc. Society then began placing an emphasis simply on having a degree, and now people matriculate at colleges and universities to figure out what they want to do when they grow up. While that, in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, the current saturation of liberal/socialist/communist ideology amongst faculty leads to indoctrination rather than education.
Those of us who pursued bachelor's degrees because we were passionate about our love for a certain career or subject matter graduate with the same degree as those who entered higher education simply because they could.
My company doesn’t do residential work anymore because people complain about what we have to charge. It’s really interesting how many liberals with Kerry (yeah, they’re still on there) and Obama stickers on their cars don’t want to pay what union labor costs.
I guess they think it should be free for them....
“Education is by no means a measure of one’s common sense.”
I know quite a few people who are “educated beyond their intelligence.”
This is one old professor who agrees completely. Then again, I did start out in the oilfield.