This popped up on the news a couple of hours ago. Two well known actresses, a co-founder of a global law firm and other assorted very rich people shelled out millions of dollars to get their kids into elite colleges. Why am I not surprised.
And then you got in the wrong queue at distribution.... and now you can't thumb your nose at anyone.
And you're so old you mistook the Big Bang for a knock at the door. Then you hightailed it out the back door just in case it was the cops.
And you're so old you forgot that you were the one that lit the fuse that made all this stuff happen. If it weren't for us old heads the sale on .edu would still be a sale instead of a giveaway.
A degree means nothing at the end of the day, because essentially it's just a piece of paper. Knowledge most certainly is more important, and if that knowledge accompanies that piece of paper then all well and good. Far too often, however, that piece of paper is solitary and lacks the credentials/ kinowledge that should go with it.
The smartest man I ever met left school when he was eight to help support his family. He never returned to school and never attended university, yet he has all the business smarts anyone could ever need. He started his own business with one truck and expanded it with additional trucks and drivers until he'd created Linfox, one of the largest transport companies in Australia, perhaps even the world as he also has overseas interests now as well.
What's more, he's a great bloke to work for... not stuck up, like some university types who think they're better than we peons.
You can say that but in the U.S. the better jobs go to people with degrees. That's a fact.
When the whole system is geared to people who are well to do then we will never get a fair system.
The college system in the U.S. is more or less a business. Like health care in the U.S. going to college costs way more than in other developed countries. When profits are the goal than people get less but end up paying more.
Add the fact that we have a unqualified billionaire in charge of the education system in this country.
Of just about every branch of government these days. You don't need a degree or experience. All you need is big bucks and the right stooge to give them to.
It's the same here in Australia.... that's why we have idiots running the asylum. Over my 65 years I have met and worked with many people with degrees and found over 50% have little to no common sense, are generally inept at just about everything and know little to nothing of the jobs they were hired to do. Frankly, I'd use their degrees as toilet paper, yet they continue to get the top jobs.
I'm not saying that all people with degrees are idiots... just a lot of those I have met. I've also met people who worked hard at university to become the best they could be, and a lot of those are/were umemployed because they are supposedly over-qualified. Over-qualified???? I mean, how could anyone be over-qualified because they have more than one degree and can do a bit more than the job in question requires? It's about money, really, not having to pay more than the advertised salary.
We had that here.... then one buffoon replaced another, as is usually the case.
The administration in charge of this country makes it a point of appointing people who actually are running down the department they are appointed to. For example, Scott Pruitt who's background was full of scandals. He was put in charge of the EPA but if you look you'll see that in Oklahoma he sued the EPA 14 times! So if you want to destroy a department put someone like that in charge of it. His tenure as chief of the EPA was mired in controversy and near scandal.
Pay big bucks...still come out dumber than a bag of wet hair. You can't fix stupid.
And the shmuck who replaced him is no better. Then there is the ersatz science council appointed to 'discuss' climate change. The head of which claimed that CO2, a green house gas, was being unfairly persecuted. Imagine that. Highly educated they are.
Unfairly persecuted? That's not a lot different to saying that a mass murderer who's on the run is being unfairly persecuted when a manhunt is mounted to catch him/her.
Like I said before, some of the more 'highly educated' are actually the least intelligent.