A college degree is worth zilch. Add a legal degree, or MBA, or PhD and you might have something. but that would require getting some kind of decent grades at some point. Seventh grade is when they start to notice grades, so that is when the wheat starts to separate from the chaff. Party, get a truck, get a job at McDonalds and disappear in the chaff, or read some of the assigned books and get the grades. It’s never too late: witness the 73 year old who hopes to pass the high school exit exam so he can get married and join the army. If he had done this at age 18 he would be high in the cabinet of his country and on the BOD of an international bank or own a $10 million house in Tennessee and be in Congress.
Greybeard is correct. An undergrad degree for anything other than science or engineering is asympotically approaching a Wizard of Oz degree. (All political “science” types can look up the word “asymptote”.) Of course, the next step is govt sponsorshop of all college education, followed by govt jobs for the vast majority of graduates who have no discernable skill, followed by “equal rights” and “diversity” requirements so as to provide positions for those entirely incapable of producing income. Such is life. Remember, we already have provisions for the talentless: Rap, civil servants, and - most important - politics. (Common, think of ANYTHING that Gore could really do...)
OKAY, I realise anecdotal ain't much, but I know that our son would not be where he is if we, and his older brother, had not pushed him after the Masters thing. Heads up the Equity derivatives research dept. for a large intl bank now.
Never with a BA or Masters would he have gotten this far....Beat out the MIT,Harvard, Yale guys who laughed when they saw he came from Flori-DUH for his first job at JPM on Wall St.
As I said, anecdotal-totally- but illustrate what advanced degrees can do for ya...BTW, taught at Florida while going and No Debt at graduation....We are blessed with our kids beyond our understanding....
” 73 year old who hopes to pass the high school exit exam so he can get married and join the army.’
LOL
Would that be the 2nd Geriatric Corps?
Worth zilch in terms of ability to perform on the job, but increasingly necessary to even get in the door for an interview.
Employers don't want lazy, surly slobs who can barely read. Screening for that on your own is an assault on diversity (which is our strength) that will get the EEOC on your neck. So instead you make up an unrelated BA requirement and let the college system do that screening for you.
A college degree us NOT worth zilch. My four kids all have degrees (only one a MA in History) and they are doing quite well. Two, including the MA in History are in the Army, and one makes over 200K per year, another about 100K with an engineering degree from Georgia Tech.
Our universities are doing a great job educating, except of course for the liberal propaganda.
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