Wood yiu beleeve it?? Sumb Haters acchurly tryed “to” pubbalish “a” Syntiffick Paper sayin “that” Collidge Stodints tooday they has “ownly Avveridge Inttellergints!!!!!!
That thare pa-per it got snuphed Out “in a” hury, I “can” tell yiu!!! Supoasely the payper it “got” Pier Re-vyued butt “I” dought beleeve it!!!!
Ya know waht They sayed??? Thay sayed practickly Evvry Boddy thay gose “to” collidge and “evvry boddy” ALYAWS comms out Avridge!!! If yiu putt evry boddy In Collidge, the whole Collidge Poppalation it wil has To Be jist Avvridge!!!!
Well haow Craizy “can” yiu get??? Waht hapens the mo-mint yiu git Excepptid to Collidge?? Tah-dah! Yure Eye-Q gose up!!! Man, myne whent Up 36 (thrithty-six) poynts!! And yiu gett anether 20 (two-enty) poynts wen yiu Gradurate!!!!! And aslo extry Poynts for taiking Ginder Studdies and Nothing Studdies. It is garanteeed! that “Yiu Whil” be Ulltra-Smarrt!
Wee “are” goingto Ask Pressadint Jobydin to maik It Aginst “the” Law to say Collidge Stoodints thay “are nott” (Haow can ennyboddy even think thatt???) The Smarrtist Peeple In “the” Whorled!!??!
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I’ve seen some very mediocre minds who brandished advanced degrees. I think that we went off course with this, over time. In a simple economy, farmers and trades people, most workers could learn their required skills via apprenticeship, whether formal, or informal (learning directly from parents, uncles, aunts, etc.). But this system has limitations, and for some things, a more formal learning environment is a necessity. I wouldn’t want to be treated by a doctor, or represented by an attorney, whom had not completed learning to some realistic standard. But the realistic standard has changed, over the years.
I noticed, decades ago, that they started requiring studies into social issues, even for non-related degrees. I’ll be honest with you, if I’m about to board an aircraft, I’m not concerned about whether the aeronautical engineer that led the design team for that aircraft had ticked all of the politically correct boxes. What I care about is whether that engineer knows how to perform effectively as an engineer; period. I am, in no way, an aeronautical or structural engineer. I’ve seen the work that structural engineers go through, just to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a simple simple state, and I am very impressed. They leave me in the dust.
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics tend to be hardcore. You can’t write a flowery essay and fake your way past these subjects. They require a different approach to thinking through problems. (One of my favorite coworkers was our Finance Director, but when he would see how I calculated things, he was gobsmacked, because I used mathematical tricks he’d never heard of. He was well educated, with a Masters from a reputable school, but as much math as a Finance Director has to do, the techniques he was taught were quite different from even the most basic engineering math.) My point is, that STEM isn’t for everyone, and we need people in other fields, but these days, the colleges aren’t spending as much time on some of the base skills which, IMO, are essential to really mastering technical skills.
But we now have degree programs in subject areas that are not particularly useful for building a career. “Nothing Studies” may be satire, but it’s not as far from reality as it would have been 30-40 years ago. IMHO, studies in soft subjects are doing nothing but racking up student debt which cannot possibly be repaid with the sort of job one of these degrees would prepare you for. A few years ago, I spoke to a civic planner with an advanced degree (which he reminded people of, constantly), but in a candid moment he actually said that he had nothing, which is to say that he had acquired no useful skills from his degree program. Had he understood some basics of drainage, how utilities are routed, etc. he would have been much better off.
What can I say? I have a degree in Political Science–Phi Beta Kappa, too. None of it ever did me a lick of good in the workplace, but I do think my education (oh, forsooth!) helped to shape me as a writer. And I consider it illuminating to study history, so I have never stopped studying it. Even though it’s never put a penny in my pocket.
History is definitely important, and I believe that one of the biggest problems of our time, but in and of itself, political science and history degrees don’t translate into a lot of job opportunities.
When does Joe ever graduate? Is he going for his PhD? Has he ever had a job and seen how much money is taken out of his paycheck by the gov’t? And why do they even do that when the gov’t can just print money out of thin air?
Joe is a perpetual student. And an idiot.
A perpetual idiot.