Nuclear Unicorn
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Fri Sep-30-11 01:36 PM
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| 70. At least we'll be able to all discuss Baudelier while waiting in the unemployment line n/t |
| -And once every child in America gets a college education, what then? |
kentuck |
Sep-30-11 07:04 AM |
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Takes two years of college to get the same job I was doing while I was still in high school |
NNN0LHI |
Sep-30-11 07:09 AM |
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Just saw a sign in the window of our local linen store. Admin. Asst. |
monmouth |
Sep-30-11 07:59 AM |
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See my post below |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Sep-30-11 11:55 AM |
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Just read your great post and think you are right. n/t |
monmouth |
Sep-30-11 12:36 PM |
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At least we'll be able to all discuss Baudelier while waiting in the unemployment line n/t |
Nuclear Unicorn |
Sep-30-11 01:36 PM |
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Community College is nothing but a job vocation degree. |
icymist |
Oct-02-11 05:17 AM |
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Then, after investing those huge sums, and going into debt, |
LWolf |
Sep-30-11 07:09 AM |
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Then your job will involve "You want fries with that?" but you'll have a degree. |
hobbit709 |
Sep-30-11 07:11 AM |
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It teaches you how to THINK. |
Zoeisright |
Sep-30-11 07:12 AM |
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don't bet on that |
hobbit709 |
Sep-30-11 07:14 AM |
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You have a good point, but you express it badly |
david_vincent |
Sep-30-11 08:51 AM |
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Well put |
XemaSab |
Sep-30-11 10:48 AM |
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As a veteran of college teaching, I can tell you that as of 1993, the last year I was involved, |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Sep-30-11 11:56 AM |
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Think of which Fraternity to join, the ones with the best cheat sheets |
formercia |
Sep-30-11 07:30 AM |
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"Cacademia" ROFL, you owe me a new keyboard! |
Odin2005 |
Sep-30-11 07:42 AM |
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YOu can't teach someone with a 90 IQ to THINK |
AngryAmish |
Sep-30-11 07:51 AM |
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Hey, I don't want someone with a 90 IQ |
XemaSab |
Sep-30-11 11:10 AM |
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Better to give the 90 iq individual a job without any tangible risks, like shuffling paper. n/t |
lumberjack_jeff |
Sep-30-11 11:42 AM |
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A 90 IQ is only slightly less than average. |
surrealAmerican |
Sep-30-11 01:33 PM |
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Which is great...if you have the privilege of time, aptitude, and money for college. |
Lyric |
Sep-30-11 08:36 AM |
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The fact that this is a widespread argument, is itself a strong argument for the opposite. |
lumberjack_jeff |
Sep-30-11 11:13 AM |
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Right! It made me learn to teach myself! |
icymist |
Oct-02-11 05:21 AM |
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Bait and switch |
get the red out |
Sep-30-11 07:15 AM |
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yep, classic american |
iemitsu |
Sep-30-11 07:37 AM |
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They become 99% ers and join the Wall Street protest. |
gordianot |
Sep-30-11 07:16 AM |
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I wish more would go into the trades like plumbing |
mainer |
Sep-30-11 07:17 AM |
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Donna and I used to joke about that. |
hobbit709 |
Sep-30-11 07:19 AM |
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I think in the USA there is the idea that learning a skill such as plumbing or becoming an |
raccoon |
Sep-30-11 07:25 AM |
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Exactly, it's some kind of "status" thing |
get the red out |
Sep-30-11 08:53 AM |
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This is why democracy works |
Yo_Mama |
Sep-30-11 07:27 AM |
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Of course more plumbers would force that wage down |
exboyfil |
Sep-30-11 07:37 AM |
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My daughter wanted Art (not much earning power there) |
woodsprite |
Sep-30-11 08:31 AM |
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You can't outsource a plumber or electrician's job to India. (n/t) |
spin |
Sep-30-11 07:56 AM |
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Trades are not valued, labor is not valued |
Bosso 63 |
Sep-30-11 07:58 AM |
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Looking back |
xmas74 |
Sep-30-11 08:57 AM |
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I strongly recommend the book "shop class as soulcraft". n/t |
lumberjack_jeff |
Sep-30-11 11:15 AM |
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The construction trades where I live are all hurting badly.. |
Fumesucker |
Oct-01-11 05:05 AM |
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But plumbers and electricians still work, even without construction |
mainer |
Oct-01-11 07:12 AM |
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Repairing/renovation is not the same as new construction. |
Fumesucker |
Oct-02-11 04:53 AM |
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so true, so true, ... as i look toward college tuition in a couple years and the job market |
seabeyond |
Sep-30-11 07:19 AM |
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Maybe they'll finally get your order right at Taco Bell. nt |
michreject |
Sep-30-11 07:20 AM |
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A can of Pepsi. With 75 cents, of course. |
HughBeaumont |
Sep-30-11 07:21 AM |
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It also denigrates other types of education |
Yo_Mama |
Sep-30-11 07:25 AM |
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well, the ideal of course |
barbtries |
Sep-30-11 07:26 AM |
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That's easy enough ..... |
H2O Man |
Sep-30-11 07:32 AM |
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A Bachelor's Degree has become what a high school diploma was 60 years ago. |
Odin2005 |
Sep-30-11 07:32 AM |
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True. |
H2O Man |
Sep-30-11 07:34 AM |
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But a high school degree didn't leave you or your parents |
Fla Dem |
Sep-30-11 07:48 AM |
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True. |
Odin2005 |
Sep-30-11 08:02 AM |
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Then a degree will be worth next to nothing |
IndyPragmatist |
Sep-30-11 07:33 AM |
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I wonder about the smaller midwest state schools |
exboyfil |
Sep-30-11 07:49 AM |
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we will be known the world over for our SUPER-INTELLIGENT unemployment lines........ |
piratefish08 |
Sep-30-11 07:35 AM |
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master's degree's are near worthless today with no fucking jobs............ |
piratefish08 |
Sep-30-11 07:36 AM |
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That is not possible. |
TheManInTheMac |
Sep-30-11 07:36 AM |
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Then it will be something else that one needs to get |
The2ndWheel |
Sep-30-11 07:36 AM |
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Look at it this way... |
Javaman |
Sep-30-11 07:40 AM |
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then we will have doctors, teachers, architects, engineers, public health |
KurtNYC |
Sep-30-11 07:41 AM |
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We are Seriously Snobbish |
malthaussen |
Sep-30-11 08:11 AM |
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i think vocational schools are looking pretty good these days |
KurtNYC |
Sep-30-11 08:37 AM |
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i subscribe to the notion that knowledge is power |
iemitsu |
Sep-30-11 08:07 AM |
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Educating kids to be good corporate worker bees will |
katsy |
Sep-30-11 08:21 AM |
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It's part of the good life |
treestar |
Sep-30-11 08:32 AM |
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We need jobs that can support a decent living WITHOUT a college degree. |
Lyric |
Sep-30-11 08:35 AM |
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I think one of the strongest programs |
LanternWaste |
Sep-30-11 08:47 AM |
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In order to get every child in America a college education, the college standards would have to be |
Cal33 |
Sep-30-11 09:11 AM |
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I don't agree that the average student can't pass the exams |
XemaSab |
Sep-30-11 11:25 AM |
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The average student will not be able to graduate college with degrees in the subjects I |
Cal33 |
Oct-02-11 08:08 AM |
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We will have college educated bus drivers and janitors. nt |
hack89 |
Sep-30-11 09:29 AM |
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A college degree doesn't matter -- the college, major, GPA, faculty recommendations, work record do |
FarCenter |
Sep-30-11 10:31 AM |
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once everyone had a degree, the credential needed for a 'good job' increases to an MA |
Liberal_in_LA |
Sep-30-11 10:32 AM |
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Everyone behaves as if they wish to be an english professor. |
lumberjack_jeff |
Sep-30-11 11:20 AM |
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exactly. |
Liberal_in_LA |
Sep-30-11 01:34 PM |
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College isn't for everyone, and educational requirements can be artificial barriers |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Sep-30-11 11:54 AM |
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Maybe an educated population would demand that they receive the productive gains for their labor |
Taitertots |
Sep-30-11 12:43 PM |
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Logic problem: right now, the population has more education than ever before, and yet... |
Romulox |
Sep-30-11 12:53 PM |
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There is also inequality in education.... |
Taitertots |
Sep-30-11 02:13 PM |
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Then, the Federal Government imports millions of people willing to work cheaper than you. |
Romulox |
Sep-30-11 12:52 PM |
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Many of them would have the tools to create jobs and invent things and |
lunatica |
Sep-30-11 01:36 PM |
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They will work service industry, like me |
Dragonbreathp9d |
Sep-30-11 06:40 PM |
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Then we all live in Lake Wobegon-- |
eridani |
Oct-01-11 02:46 AM |
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That's Easy, We'll Just Build Super Colleges |
wellst0nev0ter |
Oct-01-11 07:33 AM |
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More blather. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-02-11 05:28 AM |
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Education is not the problem |
quaker bill |
Oct-02-11 06:21 AM |
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We are going to have a lot of over-educated Walmart greeters. nt |
TBF |
Oct-02-11 08:44 AM |
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