[roaddog727]

A BS/BA degree means that you are trainable for future position of increasing authority/responsibility.

Also, the degree which one attains directly relates to one's initial salary level.

If you get a BA in basket-weaving, don't expet to get a salary like someone who majored in Finance and gets a Job as a Jr. investment banker with Salomon Bros.

[Drew68]

If you get a BA in basket-weaving, don't expet to get a salary like someone who majored in Finance and gets a Job as a Jr. investment banker with Salomon Bros.

Well said! Americans gripe about the number of H1-B visas we issue but I can't help wondering if this correlates to the decreasing number of American students who major in hard sciences like engineering and chemistry.

To many American university students would rather spend their college years pulling bong-hits while they major in "Literature of Contemporary Protest" and "Peace Studies" and leave the mechanical engineering classes filled with students named Amir, Singh and Mohammed.

[bvw]

If you get a BA in basket-weaving, don't expet to get a salary like someone who majored in Finance and gets a Job as a Jr. investment banker with Salomon Bros.

So someone who actually makes something, as oppossed to someone who waits for other folks to make somethng and then grabs the value of the trading of that thing so made -- that maker of real things -- just a peon. Of no value.

Unclean! Beneath contempt. Not worthy of "education".