Posted on May 15, 2016
If you don't have a college degree, do you feel that you are somehow less smart than those who do?
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This video should disabuse you of that notion. See how "smart" these college kids are. Political correctness has completely killed common sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4S0gHlKiho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4S0gHlKiho
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No Way. I see college graduates every day that could not pour pee out of a boot with directions on the heel.
A business degree is like a high school diploma, and too many kids graduate with a degree in beer and bong resin, along with saddling themselves or their parents with tens of thousands in college loans.
A business degree is like a high school diploma, and too many kids graduate with a degree in beer and bong resin, along with saddling themselves or their parents with tens of thousands in college loans.
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CPT Jack Durish
Oh, I'm gonna steal this. Count on it... What's really funny to me is that I once peed in my brother's combat boot when he was in the National Guard (he's six years older than me). I honestly don't remember doing it. I must have been sleep walking (which I did when I was younger) and he found it early the next morning when he got dressed for a guard meeting.
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Considering most college students today are more interested in finding new and exotic methods of becoming intoxicated and fornicating with as many individuals as possible while avoiding any attempt at academic excellence... No. I'm not impressed with a college diploma in the slightest.
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My wife does not have a degree. She works for an scientific laboratory. She started out as a temp employee who was supposed to complete some backlogged filing. 17 years later, she is now the HR director, Office Administrator, and Contract Compliance Officer. She is entirely self taught. She has received compliment after compliment on audits conducted by the Federal Government and Several State Governments. She makes more and has better benefits than most of the Scientists who only have Masters Degrees. I have a college degree. I married up.
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I hope no one feels that way. I'm working on a master's degree, and I haven't learned anything yet that I couldn't have learned just as well (or better) with a library card. College is a money-making industry, and the reputation/credence attached to holding a degree is a very successful form of advertising.
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Amn (Join to see)
I agree. After completed my masters I felts like I had something done, but nothing have trumped experience and of course Google.
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I've had more less-than-intelligent conversations with those with a degree, than those without. Our education system clearly "works."
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CPT Jack Durish thanks for the post and feed. A picture/video is worth a 1000 words. Nice share and read!
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CPT Jack Durish - I watched the video. Truth be told . . . political correctness or not . . . the younger generation is a lot more liberal and a lot less concerned about people who choose to change their personal appearance and/or behavior to conform to whatever image they have of themselves. That said, while I don't believe one or more degrees may distinguish individuals on the basis of competence . . . completion of a legitimate degree from a legitimate program at a legitimate university establishes for me a certain level of expectation predicting an individual candidate's performance based on degrees evidencing their commitment, performance, and success in difficult coursework over several years. In my agency . . . I am required to recruit highly intelligent, capable, aggressive, and committed officers with undergraduate . . . and in most cases graduate degrees . . . whether in arts, letters, sciences, engineering, medicine, management, or law . . . and I am unable to hire or promote anyone above some minimum entry level absent appropriate credentials. The plain fact of the matter is hiring and promotion preference usually favors (in declining level) candidates from Ivy League Schools, Service Academies, State Universities, State Colleges, Community Colleges, and accredited for profit private universities and colleges. If you want to be well paid . . . get a degree from a nationally or regionally accredited university or college . . . not from a fly by night for profit company!!! Warmest Regards, Sandy
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Great response Sandy. I obtained my degree because I needed it for the job that I wanted. A degree will open doors that would otherwise be shut.
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CPT Jack Durish
Two professions require degrees: Medicine and Law. (And as a student of law I think I would have been better prepared if I had learned it the old-fashioned way, working for a judge or practicing lawyer rather than in a school) Many jobs now require degrees, especially if you want to work in a bureaucracy or corporation. However, a degree now is more symbolic of indoctrination rather than education (witness the video). Thus, I am more inclined these days to counsel bright and talented youngsters to consider arts, crafts, skilled trades, and entrepreneurship and avoid the high cost of being indoctrinated on an American campus.
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CPT Jack Durish ( "Captain Jack" . . . OMG . . . I always wanted to say that . . . reminds me of an old Billy Joel song . . . "Saturday night and you're still hangin' around . . . tired of living in your one horse town . . . guess you won't be going back to school . . . so you play your albums, and you smoke your pot . . . and you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot . . . oh but still you're aching for the things you haven't got . . ." Billy Joel's Captain Jack '72 )
Let us be clear . . . for someone who is an attorney with a doctorate in law . . . this is some of the poorest advice I have ever heard offered to our best and brightest kids . . . based on what . . . a handful of possibly self indulgent idealists . . . but more likely an intelligent cross section of those students smart enough to avoid being thrown out for discriminatory hate speech following widespread publication on social media websites.
Bottom line . . . employment and promotion increasingly require a college degree . . . those without a college degree will continue to experience substantially lower wages and longer periods of unemployment . . . even for treasured members of our armed services.
What should frighten you more . . . is that admission and financial ability to obtain a college education is becoming increasingly difficult for working and middle class kids . . . who may be forced to sacrifice their dreams of an interesting, creative, and self fulfilling career because "Captain Jack" and our politicians are cutting back on college funding . . . touting failure to complete a degree as somehow the best path to "success" in our society.
Why not counsel kids to do their best academically, socially, and physically . . . secure entrance to one of our service academies . . . or a first rate state university . . . or one of the exceptional private schools ( Harvard, MIT, CalTech, Cambridge, Oxford, Sorbonne, Barnard, Wellesley, Scripps, Smith, etc ) that offer scholarships and a brighter future ???
Let us be clear . . . for someone who is an attorney with a doctorate in law . . . this is some of the poorest advice I have ever heard offered to our best and brightest kids . . . based on what . . . a handful of possibly self indulgent idealists . . . but more likely an intelligent cross section of those students smart enough to avoid being thrown out for discriminatory hate speech following widespread publication on social media websites.
Bottom line . . . employment and promotion increasingly require a college degree . . . those without a college degree will continue to experience substantially lower wages and longer periods of unemployment . . . even for treasured members of our armed services.
What should frighten you more . . . is that admission and financial ability to obtain a college education is becoming increasingly difficult for working and middle class kids . . . who may be forced to sacrifice their dreams of an interesting, creative, and self fulfilling career because "Captain Jack" and our politicians are cutting back on college funding . . . touting failure to complete a degree as somehow the best path to "success" in our society.
Why not counsel kids to do their best academically, socially, and physically . . . secure entrance to one of our service academies . . . or a first rate state university . . . or one of the exceptional private schools ( Harvard, MIT, CalTech, Cambridge, Oxford, Sorbonne, Barnard, Wellesley, Scripps, Smith, etc ) that offer scholarships and a brighter future ???
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A degree does not measure intelligence. I have a good friend of mine that just has a high school diploma and works in construction who is one of the smartest people I have ever met. I think a degree only says that one can finish what they start and they are capable of learning. Obviously this is not the only way to determine those things. I think too much emphasis is placed on the degree.
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CPT Jack Durish
A degree used to be a fair gauge of intelligence and all those things you mention. Sadly, it is now a certificate of indoctrination.
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Definitely not. Although I'm currently working on my Masters in Education, I know all to well that there are plenty of individuals without college degrees that I've encountered during my life who are highly intelligent and have taught me lifelong lessons in communication skills, the value of hardwork and dedication and using common sense tactics when approaching all problems.
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I have a degree but I don't think it makes me smarter than those who don't.
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Capt Seid Waddell
Capt (Join to see), I recall being disappointed when I got my degree. I had imagined that I would have felt smarter in some way at that point.
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