Posted on 07/31/2013 7:46:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For years we've heard the propaganda line that everyone needs to go to college -- that a degree will improve your status and standard of living.
It has become politically incorrect to even suggest that a higher education degree might not be right for every young American. So it's not surprising that those without a college degree often feel inferior and marginalized.
Has a college degree become the litmus test for whether a person is well educated and successful? These highly successfully individuals would likely disagree with that premise.
Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Simon Cowell, Barry Diller, Ted Turner, Ralph Lauren, Governor Jan Brewer, Governor Scott Walker, Governor Gary Herbert, Peter Jennings, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, William Safire, Larry King, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Woody Allen, Karl Rove, and 33 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
What do they all have in common? Not one received a college degree!
A college degree has long been considered the golden ticket to a more fulfilling life both financially and intellectually. Now the bloom seems to be off the rose. Students are graduating, armed with a politically-driven pseudo education, to find themselves jobless or underemployed, debt ridden, and perhaps living again with parents.
Political leaders, college presidents, and prominent foundations argue that the U.S. must increase the proportionate number of adults with college degrees if it is to remain competitive in the global economy. But this premise is incompatible with the cold facts.
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About half the classes I took in 4 years of college were useless.
Absolutely, so the uni could take more of your $ and pat you on the head.
College is just a new name for communist reeducation camp. It sucks the common sense out of your brain and replaces it with Marxist dogma. A college degree is noting but a piece of paper for stupid people to hide behind and claim superiority.
So doctors, engineers, and officers in the military are stupid people?
About half the classes I took in 4 years of college were useless.
....half of six years here./s
When I look back, the most effective educational course I ever took was in the Army for my signals intelligence MOS. Every bit of this training was applicable to the specific job I performed. Maybe 20 percent of my college courses related to my civilian career.
Peter Jennings lied for a number of years about having a degree, but that’s splitting hairs.
Bottom line is, you tell 100+ million people they’ve been scammed, and they’re gonna demand refunds and cancellation of their student loans.
No one out there with the cojones to do that IMO.
I don’t think anyone is talking about people coming out of the formal education system as specialists of any kind.
Some of the names on the list on those w/o degrees are just as Marxist, if not more, than any given Marxist.
In my corporate in California life I was on a training team that included HR management. We often found humor in some of the applications that came in from college grads who couldn’t spell or form complete sentences. Applications from some schools (such as UC Santa Cruz or Irvine) known for liberal political activism were frequently set aside.
Universities loathe us.
Why is it dignified for me to crave the approval of entities that wish me to DIE...?
I’ve seen a lack of a degree hold a lot of people back. My company even paid for people to get degrees. Refusing to get a free degree was considered a bad sign.
“Sorry, that position requires a Bachelor degree”.
RE: Applications from some schools (such as UC Santa Cruz or Irvine) known for liberal political activism were frequently set aside.
I gather you don’t think that UC Berkley or UC Santa Barbara or UCLA are known for liberal activism...
RE: Why is it dignified for me to crave the approval of entities that wish me to DIE...?
Universities wish you to die? Why?
You don’t need a degree to talk, invest, take business risks, invent or make something. The key to success is based more on personal motivation than just learning in a classroom. We still need all types of scientists and medical personnel and they need to be taught and trained properly via advanced education. I have a millionaire in the family without a degree, he had a GED, but he was a great salesman, no need to go to college to learn how to sell. He had a non college BS degree, that didn’t stand for bachelor of science.
I could have written a much longer list. The point was that HR people who are professionally oriented and politically often sense that some colleges produce “toxic” graduates who will often be a problem to the workforce and management team.
I knew this when I first went to my local junior college to get some “edgakaitin” after a year of work after my graduation from high school. I was a computer geek then, as were my friends. We are all successful due to role models that chose to do what they wanted to do rather than be slaves to to the ridiculous crap they drill you with at a college. So far, so good. Its all about personal responsibility and self-taught education.
Still, try getting a job here in Central NC that pays more than $10/hour w/o a degree.
And don’t give me crap about hypothetical “skilled trades.” The illegals have those nailed down.
That awful book learnin’ is the only answer...
I think we all understand that doctors, engineers and other technical specialties need post secondary education, even those of us who think that college in general is a waste of time and money for most people these days.
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