Comments on: UPDATED: Miseducation Bubble (The Marketing Energizer Bunny)

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:03:36 +0000

Having a college degree is no guarantee of success. Having one will get you in the door with many companies though. From what I can see, college is a big business amd somewhat of a scam. Should it really take four years to get a business management degree?

By: MY RON-PAUL i

MY RON-PAUL i — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:15:45 +0000

Much of what is (or should be) covered in “college” used to be taught in High School – which, itself, was not for everyone. They even used to have entrance exams to get into “secondary school”.

This school for everyone is nonsense. The number of self-made businessmen who built themselves up from little pushcarts and stores are very large and those people (I know of one who died last year) made a lot of money and not by waving some paper credential. My nephew with the Masters Degree may soon be facing unemployment while his brother, a high school dropout, is self-employed at a store which he and his wife own….

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:23:44 +0000

We’ve traded apprenticeship for indenture; why are we surprised at the result.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:12:36 +0000

Are Degrees even relevant given the time and money invested?

http://youtu.be/cL9Wu2kWwSY

THINK…..SUBJECT MATTER IMMERSION, OJT, LIFELONG LEARNING.

ps: After viewing, nota bene the video presentation date.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:09:01 +0000

And these people are supposed to be more intelligent than the average person? I do not feel sorry for this guy at all. What an absolute joke this is. And he is one of many out there either looking for work or participating in Occupy Wall Street.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:26:08 +0000

I am extremely lucky in that I managed to acquire just about all my knowledge from the public library and free material on the internet. This is fine for IT, but I can appreciate that no-one is going to hire a self-taught Accountant or Doctor (heaven forbid). As long as people understand that there are cheap, and even free, alternatives to a degree. This is especially important when studying something frivoulous like gender studies or whatnot.