One would have to be extraordinary to resist being inundated by the continual peer pressure to think that most higher educational institutions views are actually normal. It doesn't surprise me you have a favorable view of the so called educated way of thinking. Some of us just want the education to earn a better living.
Not really sure why one would need a PhD to have love for God or why someone would be judged over the national anthem? I can only assume you're saying you teach music by that statement? Regardless, the question still stands. Not sure where you're getting that I'm saying anything about your lived experience. I'm simply stating that not having an ounce of higher education in any way adversely effects your value or worth as person. In many ways it may enhance your value and worth as a person. This is due to garbage coming out of the vast majority of universities.
Are you too much of a coward to answer a simple question? I mean surely a super highly educated individual like yourself with multiple degrees can easily give an answer that could best a mere degree holder. I've seen many posts you've made on this forum that were condescending. Surely you don't feel like there should be a double standard?
Yeah, you’re definitely speaking to me there. People these days accept whatever a computer spits at them because they want fast results rather than taking the time to understand what goes into the result. Back in my days as an insurance underwriter it got to where I was the only person in the company that could manually rate. So when anyone else didn’t understand why the computer rating gave them something wrong or something they didn’t expect they would come to me. Because I knew the logic behind the rating system I could always figure out the issue or explain why the result was different than they expected. If tech was ever taken away I’m convinced a good chunk of the country would die or at least have to beg to survive and I’m not sure that group would have the work ethic to do the begging.
For those fields it makes sense. For general corporate America it was stupid to make a college degree a requirement but how else were they going to force people to college? Then the question becomes why would corporate America want to force us to college? That’s where some of the other back and forth in this thread comes in of course. It was genius though. Corporations say they require a 4 year degree or equivalent experience knowing that in time there would be no equivalent experience because you can’t get an entry level job without a college degree and they’re not hiring the older folks with experience but no degree for the entry level jobs. Trades weren’t really pushed like college was back when I was in high school in the mid-90s and already by then if you weren’t going into a trade you pretty much had to have a college degree to get a job. There were still some that didn’t require one. Now you almost have to have a masters degree to stand out and definitely require a college degree to get any kind of white collar job. A 4 year degree is the equivalent of a high school diploma from the 80s and a masters degree is like a 4 year degree from that time.
We have been talking about this allot lately at my house. Technology is great but the adage about its only as good as long as it’s working is true.
