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To: Monterrosa-24

Not so fast. Went to UGA on the six-year plan, majored in history and quarter beer. Now I own my own business, with 70-plus employees. REAL liberal arts degrees will teach you plenty about human nature, how to search out facts, and how to apply them with both eyes open. Most importantly, you learn a skill often attributed to engineers and such - how to take 10% of the pieces to a puzzle, and reconstruct the whole picture. The plain truth is that our colleges and universities are overpopulated by 50%. Rampant PC and egalitarianism have conspired to ensure that EVERY parent in the nation is convinced that their baby is college material. No one is willing to let these poor souls in on the fact that they are cognitively somewhere between painfully ordinary and first cousin to a cherry-stone clam. Consequently, the little doofuses are consigned to a lifetime of frustration, cluelessness, and voting Democrat.


149 posted on 02/24/2005 10:23:58 AM PST by Selamat (Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses - HL Mencken)
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To: Selamat
Seriously, I agree with you. I was a philosophy and religion major with a military science minor. My Master's was in Ed with an endorsement in History. I was on top of the world by age 26 but managed to work my way down from there.

I visited one of my ole undergrad profs a few years ago. I asked him the dif between his students nowadays compared to the 70s. He said that in the 70s his students had poor writing skills but today's guys and dolls are much worse.
202 posted on 02/24/2005 11:04:31 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (Technology advances but human nature is dependably stagnant)
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