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tovarichpeter says

A college education or a house?

Correction: A college education degree or a house?

In a time when everyone is walking around with a Doctorate in useless information in their pant pocket.
Who is really ever more educated than others?

A college degree simply means ... white collar barrier of entry.

I'm waiting for a news article to actually make that point. In other words, you can have all the experience in the world, but as a blue collar machinist, w/o that BA in underwater basketweaving, earned remotely (from some Penn/Cal/Indiana State online), despite many years of operating and fixing equipment, you cannot run a facility as a manager.

Rin says

you can have all the experience in the world, but as a blue collar machinist, w/o that BA in underwater basketweaving, earned remotely (from some Penn/Cal/Indiana State online), despite many years of operating and fixing equipment, you cannot run a facility as a manager.

Well the whole point is, people with all of the experience in the wolrd, should be able to get small business loans and take a crack at their own manufacturing business. Rather than dabbling deeper in any companies inner politics. That's for college boys. And like you say, we can't all be college boys.

Overpay for either.

CaptainShuddup says

Rin says

you can have all the experience in the world, but as a blue collar machinist, w/o that BA in underwater basketweaving, earned remotely (from some Penn/Cal/Indiana State online), despite many years of operating and fixing equipment, you cannot run a facility as a manager.

Well the whole point is, people with all of the experience in the world, should be able to get small business loans and take a crack at their own manufacturing business. Rather than dabbling deeper in any companies inner politics. That's for college boys. And like you say, we can't all be college boys.

This is not entirely true.

If college was a true examination system, kinda like London Univ's distance program, which BTW, has been around since Victoria's time, it can be both cheap and accessible to those who're holding actual jobs than some wasted years on a campus full of drunkards.

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/search/?solrsort=sort_title%20asc&filters=tid%3A557

And many lazy types do not complete the above, as there's no grading curve, automatically making the F and D students into C and B students, by virtue of attendance. Even in pressure cooker nations like Singapore, where students study much of the time, less than 5% graduate with first class honors, a.k.a magna cum laude by US standards. In contrast, America's higher education is a joke as it appears that everyone's an honors graduate these days.