Few of the people I know with college degrees actually have worked in the field their degree would imply. For example, I have a BS (yeah, that is appropriate! ) in economics, but have worked as an electrical engineer or computer specialist nearly all my life.
IMO, college primarily teaches you to think (or not, in some cases ).
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again - Jeanne Pincha-Tulley
Comprehensive is Latin for there is lots of bad stuff in it - Trey Gowdy
BearMtnHIB wrote: Your lucky to have done all that on such a worthless education - congratulations.
You must have used the knowledge you got somewhere else.
:rofl
Even in the presence of evidence to the contrary you will look for a reason not to believe the truth but to propagate your delusions.....obviously you didn't major in science. (or if you did, never applied that knowledge)
Not my opinion my friend, society's opinion. The report that BIH references speaks of a college education skewing the political values of the students towards those embraced by liberals. That would make the use of the word liberal in this instance the opposite of broad and free; to be instead narrow and restrictive to a particular area of political ideology.
Obfuscation of language, very Orwellian when you get right down to it. The Progressive Party was started by Teddy Roosevelt. When "progressive" lost its luster, the switch was made to "liberal" to describe the philosophy. When that term lost its luster, Secretary Clinton reverted to the use of the term progressive, rather than liberal, which was quickly embraced once again, until the last 2 years took the shine off of its use once more.
When you look today at the definitions for the word liberal, they refer first to a political philosophy and only later to what would have been the common understanding of the word when used by Thomas Jefferson, indeed by most anyone until after the turn of the 20th century. When one uses the term liberal today, it has a narrow, rather than expansive, meaning. That is not my opinion, that is simply what is.
It is what happens when one attempts to co-opt the language for their own political purposes. Gay ceases to mean happy or carefree and becomes associated primarily with homosexuality. Liberal ceases to mean broad, expansive, free and becomes defined, narrow and tailored to identify a certain political ideology. That is not my doing, I simply recognize that it has been done.
Funny, but "Society" in the election of 2008, was made up of 52% of the public that voted to clean out the GOP, and elect Obama--i.e., liberals, or left-leaning independents. When you start talking about what "society" wants, or "society's opinion", you mean YOUR opinion, and you THINK that most are behind you. Sorry, you don't get to speak for "society", particular when you are suggesting what someone's education does or does not encompass...based on your belief system.
Archer - did you have problems paying attention in school?
No, but you obviously don't pay attention in real life.
An interesting aside....one of the reasons i found such a great job just out of college with my worthless liberal arts degree was that IBM had done a study and found that the graduates most likely to do well in computer related jobs were music majors and liberal arts majors....not engineers or math majors. Kodak, who hired me took the study to heart and hired several liberal arts majors for systems and programming, and they did well, myself included. Which supports jf's post that an education teaches you to think, and doing well in life requires critical thinking AND creative thinking. Liberal arts can give you that!
I'm still waiting for BearMtnHIB to enlighten us with what type of degree HE has?!?!? [crickets chirping] Since he "worked for a living", I'm not sure if that means that he got a degree in something that he thinks is superior, that somehow enhanced his ability to work; or, if it means he worked and didn't get a degree, and somehow he thinks that NOT getting a degree and "working" is somehow superior to someone who DID get one???
LadyJazzer wrote: Funny, but "Society" in the election of 2008, was made up of 52% of the public that voted to clean out the GOP, and elect Obama--i.e., liberals, or left-leaning independents. When you start talking about what "society" wants, or "society's opinion", you mean YOUR opinion, and you THINK that most are behind you. Sorry, you don't get to speak for "society", particular when you are suggesting what someone's education does or does not encompass...based on your belief system.
Irrelevant...
And it 2010 this society voted to drain the Democrats out of their swamp in Washington. What was it, 63 House seats lost and 8 Senate seats? If this nation were run like Great Britain, or Canada (as the progressives wish to have done with health care mind you) Obama would be looking for another job right now, wouldn't he. Mighty lucky for him that the founders were smart enough to know that what Europe thinks is best seldom is and set a republican tack instead for this nation.
) in economics, but have worked as an electrical engineer or computer specialist nearly all my life.
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