On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:20:40 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Conversely, I've known people who barely made it out of high school
apply themselves in work endeavors with tenacity, making themselves
very valuable employees in the process.

Not knocking college. It's a valuable key to one's career, but it's
not the only key.

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Absolutely right. Education and knowledge are only valuable to the
extent that you can use them effectively to accomplish something else.

Almost everyone has met an educated fool at one time or another.

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:19:55 -0400, Wayne B wrote:

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:20:40 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Conversely, I've known people who barely made it out of high school
apply themselves in work endeavors with tenacity, making themselves
very valuable employees in the process.

Not knocking college. It's a valuable key to one's career, but it's
not the only key.

====

Absolutely right. Education and knowledge are only valuable to the
extent that you can use them effectively to accomplish something else.

Almost everyone has met an educated fool at one time or another.

Perhaps, but never a liberally artsy educated fool!


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On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:19:55 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:20:40 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Conversely, I've known people who barely made it out of high school
apply themselves in work endeavors with tenacity, making themselves
very valuable employees in the process.

Not knocking college. It's a valuable key to one's career, but it's
not the only key.

====

Absolutely right. Education and knowledge are only valuable to the
extent that you can use them effectively to accomplish something else.

Almost everyone has met an educated fool at one time or another.

And, almost everyone has met an incompetent uneducated fool at one
time or another. Not much of a point either way.