college is a waste of money

[zdreg]

You really should have put this in the title. I think a lot of poster didn't even read this. Unless it was your intent. However the title was a good question (Is college worth it?)....10 years ago!

I think my 1st post rises to a higher disclosure level than IPO prospectuses. if you disagree contact the SEC,

 

[fordewind]

Sounds like you're assessing the value of degrees only in terms of future employment and earning power, then?

That's not my perspective or frame of reference at all.

I think of the value of formal education (other than for vocational courses like law/medicine, of course) as being more for what remains with you, long after what you've learned has mostly been forgotten, and the fact that you have letters after your name isn't really relevant at all.

Please, stop pretending...what`s left in you?Chemestry, History, Physics?Bollox!

 

[Xela]

what`s left in you?

The ability to learn new things, to research, to examine evidence, to draw conclusions, to analyze ... I've actually found those pretty valuable life-skills - even for trading (though none of my degrees was trading-related).

As I said: just my perspective, and I'm aware that many people disagree with it.

 

[zdreg]

The ability to learn new things, to research, to examine evidence, to draw conclusions, to analyze ... I've actually found those pretty valuable life-skills - even for trading (though none of my degrees was trading-related).

As I said: just my perspective, and I'm aware that many people disagree with it.

I agree, I remember working in the school library at night. a foreign student and myself got into a discussion what is the purpose of going to college. his answer was to pick the professor's brain I never forgot it.
one time a professor who practiced before the Supreme Court said to me I get paid hundreds of dollars to answer those questions. I doubt most college students have learned those skills, but then I knew I was on the right track.

 

[fordewind]

The ability to learn new things, to research, to examine evidence, to draw conclusions, to analyze ...

Your confused.Those things you`ve listed in-built in you naturally.It`s not from 10 years of sitting on your butt and listening non sense.Life itself is a teacher, it`s a constant feeling out figuring out process.

 

[RRY16]

I agree, I remember working in the school library at night. a foreign student and myself got into a discussion what is the purpose of going to college. his answer was to pick the professor's brain I never forgot it.
one time a professor who practiced before the Supreme Court said to me I get paid hundreds of dollars to answer those questions. I doubt most college students have learned those skills, but then I knew I was on the right track.

I learned to sift thru worthless information and B.S.and that’s what this is. Most Professors don’t care about the student body. I bet you barely made it out of high school.

 

[zdreg]

bet you barely made it out of high school.[/QUOTe
put me on ignore. that way you will lessen your chance of your character being revealed.
before you do please provide a coherent answer how you came to your conclusion.

 

[tommcginnis]

The ability to learn new things, to research, to examine evidence, to draw conclusions, to analyze ... I've actually found those pretty valuable life-skills - even for trading (though none of my degrees was trading-related).

As I said: just my perspective, and I'm aware that many people disagree with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
The whole thing is good -- but get a load of just the opening paragraph. If I weren't working already (doing research on a Sunday?!? You bet your asses.) -- it'd make me want to hit the library right then and there.

To wit:
Liberal arts education (Latin: liberalis, free and ars, art or principled practice) can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history. It has its origin in the attempt to discover first principles - 'those universal principles which are the condition of the possibility of the existence of anything and everything'.[1] The liberal arts are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberalis, "worthy of a free person")[2] to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts (the Trivium), while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also played a (somewhat lesser) part in education (as the Quadrivium).[3]

What'd Austin Powers say??
"Yeah, Baby!"

 

[RRY16]

unlike America I doubt that education was bullshit in the USSR or was it?

Explain this ?

 

[RRY16]

College in the US for many students are an extension of high school. they shouldn't be in college at all. a lot of them are in college because it allows their family to continue to receive increased welfare/dole checks,

And this? Character? Lol, yea I care much.