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College is all about the sheepskin...the diploma.

In the past 40 years college degrees have become the norm, rather than the exception, and it's caused the business world to cohese into a sort of "fraternity"...owners and managers with college degrees tend to try to hire only those with college degrees. It doesn't seem to matter whether they have an appitude or the intelligence for the job...it's just the diploma.

Years ago I was forced to hire a lady with a degree in journalism by the owners of the radio station I was managing...she could not read, she could not write, and had a voice like fingernails on a chalkboard. I put her in the office, filing, but when the alphabet proved to be a challenge for her, I conferred with my managers and got permission to send her out the door. I hired another lady with a GED, no college, who ran rings around the college kid in reading, writing, and speaking.

I encouraged my kids to get degrees, which they did, but instilled into them that a degree is not the end-all, be-all in the world. They are both quite successful, but the diploma only got them in the door, their work-ethic and intelligence got them to the top.

We’ve gone thru ‘payback’ rebounds like this at least 3 times in the last 50 years....the first was New Math. When you and I were in school (assuming prior to new math), went on to college, then asked by our neighbors to help tutor their kids in math, we realized at the time that the Tower of Babel was under construction. There was nothing you nor I nor their parents could do to help these mushkins out of their jam! ....skipping forward to today, my favorite description of today’s universities: Institutions of Higher Looning.