Posted on 04/22/2008 6:03:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
As Chef of South Park advised the kids, There is a time for drugs and that is known as college.
What is truly repugnant to some people about college students issuing stocks as well as bonds is that this not only takes the government out of the picture, it takes the intelligentsia out of the picture as prescribers of how other people ought to behave.
DR SOWELL HAS A WAY WITH WORDS, UNCHALLENGED.
If kids want to party ( drugs or not ) then why tie up space in a classroom ?
They can get an apt off campus to party for 5 years...saving their parents and the taxpayers tons of money.
Dr. Sowell - a masterful observer of the current scene
in the light of inescapable truths !
Too bad that he didn’t take this opportunity to point out that
the true purpose of sending all youngsters to “college”
of one type or another ... one VALUE or another ...
is to keep employing the professoriate -
those myriad graduate students who squat around until they get that prized PhD.
When our #1 son entered high school, we told him and his three younger siblings that they'd better work hard for scholarships, and be prepared to take out loans, because we weren't going to spend all of our retirement savings to send them to college.
We paid for our own, so we figured they could pay for theirs. It made them think long and hard about their choice of college, and we knew they'd work harder knowing that it was THEIR investment on the line.
What jumped out also at me in Mr. Sowell's column was this:
But not as many jobs would be able to require college degrees if such degrees were no longer so readily available at someone else's expense.
BINGO! He's absolutely right. Lib Dems have created a perpetual, circular monopoly. Get Laid Off? Go back and get another degree. I currently know many middle-aged people with phenomenal work experience who, not having gotten the now currently required "degree" are having a hard time finding jobs -- at jobs, these folks could learn inside of two snaps, and with their past experience, bring absolute progress to any company.
That’s a good way to go, IMO. People always appreciate things more that they have to work for and as you say it makes them think about it beforehand.
Mine are just being told that they’ll join the service, do something, and that in large measure will take care of some education. There will be no Romney scenarios in this family.
“This is a very interesting concept. I suspect it might well lead to an increase in the number of students seeking degrees in business, engineering, and the hard sciences, in that such a degree would be a safer investment for the lender (and thus easier to get for the student) than a degree in, say, oppression studies or some obscure language. “
The Core of the socialist agenda is redistribution from producers to non-productive persons and activities.
After all, if it was economically productive, it could fund itself.
So, yes, eliminating socialism in funding of college educations would make education more productive.
Sowell is great. He cuts through the clutter of data with clear and concise writing.
“...rather than the vastly larger number of other claimants for government largesse who advance toward the national treasury, using the poor as human shields.”
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That’s my favorite phrase of the piece.
Bluto Blutarski said he spent EIGHT years in college.
Not counting the time presumably spent in law school (Bluto eventually became a senator after all).
Actually it was "Seven years of college down the drain." [chugs an entire fifth of JD] - Bluto
Two of the dumbest, most annoying, aggravating people I’ve ever known were 2 Ph.D’s that I hated to be seen with, talk to, visit, be forced to go to dinner with or have anything to do with.
As you can probably guess, they were “family” (sister in law and her husband). They were cheap and stingy too. And did I mention fat and ugly too?
You should have seen their cars and driven with them! Oi vey, a death wish in a death trap.
I have no idea how they got through life And they had 2 children! So much for that “for the children” crap. I don’t know if the boys had a chance or if they were doomed too to a life of corduroy, beards and jackets with leather patches on the elbows. What my English friends call “wooly pullovers”, or just “woolies”. A term of total derision and contempt.
God save us from the over “educated”..... Please!
lol
Two of the dumbest, most annoying, aggravating people Ive ever known were 2 Ph.Ds that I hated to be seen with, talk to, visit, be forced to go to dinner with or have anything to do with.
LOL! You about covered everything when it comes to the over educated that are hard to be around, especially the ones that are smarter than everyone else.
We all need a little laughter, you’ve made my evening. :)
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
My ex wife, always said that I was good for a laugh.
But apparently not much else.
I realized the real world was hard and I wanted to party hard, after all this was my last chance. I also realized the world was harder if you didn't have a degree, so I studied hard as well.
Did much better in college than in high school.
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