Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "College ON THE OUTS? Companies Are DROPPING Degree Requirements: Brie u0026 Robby Discuss" video.

  1. My education changed how I think completely. I was a product of inner city public schools, K through 12, where the majority were children of immigrants. There was no comparison pre-advanced mathematics and logic in college, and post. I was a different person, post. My advanced degrees did even more for me.
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  2. Or maybe you did not learn to parse arguments from people you disagree with. That could be true.
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  3. What a GOOD college degree does for you is build your mind. The point of this type of education is to ensure that if (when) you are required to change careers once or twice before age 70, you can. That's what a degree is supposed to do, provided you yourself do your part. If the degree doesn't do that for you, then you have a very valid complaint.
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  4. If he didn't learn how to apply what he learned, then that's his own fault. Anyone who works on applying what they've learned, will. It's not that hard.
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  5. Agreed.
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  6. Er . . . today, they expect you to do an internship, usually at no pay but sometimes with a stipend to cover lunch and transportation. IOW, less than minimum wage.
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  7. Thank you.
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  8. Thank you for the note of realism. The problem isn't college, it's college standards.
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  9. Oh we are? When college grads cannot do the math that high school grads of 1960 could do, and we are more and more responsible for our own retirement, medical care, financial planning, savings and investments? The grades and degrees are inflated. That is not the same thing.
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  10. The people who got solid degrees know that you are being manipulated into believing this, and they also know why. Who do you think can change careers, as most will have to? Someone with a quality BA/BS, or a plumber or welder? Who do you think can work at least part-time into their 70s? Yeah. Do the math. For this entire century, most people were looking at one career change before retirement. At age 40, most people have the better part of three decades of work ahead of them. Who do you think will be able to swing it? If the plumber or welder can create a larger private business, he'll be fine. The auto shop I go to now has an owner who inherited the business from his father, and his father steered him to an MBA for just that reason. His daughter will go further, she's already a math and ballet prodigy.
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  11. Yes it did.
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  12.  @antonioj123  Amen. I was just thinking this. People think tutoring means 3 months.
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  13.  @George-Gibson  But almost no one does.
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  14. Many of those degrees are the preferred route to the MBA, MPA, MSW, MLS, and of course the JD. Some also can lead to medical school. LOL
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