Look at the way the world is moving — everything has to be quantified, even the people. The highest salaries go to those with the high level skill sets.
“Look at the way the world is moving — everything has to be quantified, even the people. The highest salaries go to those with the high level skill sets.”
Sorry, but the “quantity” of “most academic degrees” does not, on the job, automatically translate, in real-world terms, into the “quality” of higher level skill sets.
What the business world rewards most, in the long run, is quality and in terms of quality, innate skills acquired before college serve a person better than one with lesser skills before college and lots of “sheepskins”.
One who has developed critical thinking abilities before college can acquire through experience far more “skills”, and more quickly, than one who enters college without critical thinking abilities - because they are seldom developed in college anymore.
And, without critical thinking abilities one is less successful translating either prior experience or “book learning and theory” into newly encountered practical applications. In the end, and in the long run the greatest success will accrue to the one who possesses the greatest knowledge and intellectual assets, particularly how to think critically, upon reaching college age, whether or not they enter college.
With the exception of some courses in finance, and most courses in the “hard” sciences, particularly as relates to medicine and engineering, an American college education no longer teaches skills and continues to do a worse than ever-before job of teaching the most critical skill - critical thinking. Instead, far to much academic effort is put into teaching what to think and believe - the professors opinion.