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On 10/7/14 11:17 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:49:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/7/2014 9:36 PM, wrote:

I appreciate engineers, doctors, nurses, scientists and even, to some
extent, lawyers but just going to college, to say you went, seems
silly to me. There are plenty of guys like Bill Gates and Mark
Zuckerberg who agree with me. After a year or two they figured out
they had squeezed all the juice out of that lemon.

Some people attend college to learn how to "think".
Many people can do that naturally.

Fortunately my parents got me out of the public school system and into
a high school that taught me to think at an earlier age. By the time
my peers were juniors in college, I was running a half million dollar
territory at IBM. By the end of that year IBM thought I could I could
think well enough to go out of the country alone on a support calls.

I see college as a necessity to achieve certain goals such as a career
choice of interest. Now-a-days it's probably even more important to
have the documented credentials. But, I agree, to attend college just
for the sake of attending college is probably a waste of time and money
for many.

My daughter's father in law is a retired history professor and he
openly says, liberal arts college is not designed to teach you a
marketable job skill.

Hehehe. Love it.

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