Yea. The Harvard, Yale, and Princeton types have really gotten us in a great position.
So what?
Mittens has more degrees than a Fahrenheit thermometer, but he's still a big loser. After all, Romney who had degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School lost to a community organizer with only a degree from Harvard Law School.
On the other hand, the founders of Apple and Microsoft both dropped out of college.
No, but in this day and age, he should at least have a birth certificate.
The real requirement should be a “working brain” and common sense.
no
The Father of our nation had the equivalent of a grade school education.
Personally, I want to know their grounding in the Bible, which is the foundation of all true education, and of our free republic.
“The rights of the colonists as Christians … may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
- Samuel Adams
“The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
- John Adams
“There is a book [the Bible] worth all the other books ever printed.”
- Patrick Henry
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
- John Jay
“The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
“Let the children…be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.”
- Benjamin Rush
“Education is useless without the Bible.”
- Daniel Webster
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
- Noah Webster
“In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
“I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.”
- Abraham Lincoln
The important thing for US president to know is the roughly 30 pages of Constitution and its amendments, also key Supreme Court interpretations of Constitution by justices who respected state sovereignty. Likewise for constitutional lawmakers who respected 10th Amendment-protected state powers. Also include key excerpts from writings of founders like Madison and Jefferson who respected state sovereignty.
As a side note concerning the need for a president who knows how to run a thriving business, historical profiles indicate that self-made millionaires like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockerfeller never had a formal college education, Vanderbilt quitting school and age 11 and Rockerfeller spending several months in a formal bookkeeping course after high school.
But also note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce. So maybe all that a president needs to lead Congress with respect to treaties and trade negotiations is uncommon common sense.
Otherwise, military issues aside, basicall the only domestic issue that a president is constitutionally authorised to sign bills for is US Mail Service policy (1.8.7). And that arguably doesn’t require a college degree.
I would say that Hunt’s column pretty well puts the issue to rest.
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison didn’t.
Does the President need a college degree?
In the last 6 years I haven’t seen or heard of Obama doing anything that would need more than a primary school education.
No
“Does the U.S. President Need a College Degree?”
Sure, why not. But only so long as the degree comes from a distinguished university like Harvard or the University of Phoenix.
However, it's not strictly necessary. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Peter Jennings, Thomas Edison, and scores of others took the hard knocks route and did just fine. One could even make a case that the autodidact (one who is self-taught) brings different perspectives from the shrink-wrapped product churned out of most universities.
What's a far more valuable - and rare - commodity in my opinion, in addition to applied intelligence, is character.
Only if he runs out of toilet paper. ...I’ve got a couple of them I’d be willing to sell for less than the Saudis paid for Obama’s.
Man I knew the MSM would make an issue of Walker’s lack of formal education. I just didn’t erxpect it so soon!
>> Does the U.S. President Need a College Degree?
Seriously? The question should be:
Does the U.S. President Need to hide his College Degree?
Absolutely not.