Mainly today the ownership of a sheepskin merely says that you have been brainwashed by liberal college professors.
Bingo. A kid with a degree in “ Peace, Love and Defense Studies” ( no joke, UNC ) is going to flip hamburgers until he is thirty and then he gets to be assistant manager - not that there is anything wrong with that!
Someone who can make a living on a single college degree majored in engineering, accounting or something with real world application, therefore they live and work in the real world. Those who majored in the soft sciences like sociology are little more than brainwashed imbeciles.
I agree with your assessment. I’ve never bought into that old liberal canard about “education” being the cure for all our ills, especially today. I don’t buy the argument that education requires more funding either. There’s really no correlation between expenditure per student and results. The late Jacques Barzun once stated that all a really great teacher needs is a blackboard, chalk, an ability to communicate and a passion for his subject. He was right. Witness our second greatest president Lincoln (sorry Licoln advocates, but Washington was the greatest). Lincoln had two years of formal schooling at a Kentucky ABC school. Other than this it was Shakespeare, the KJV of the Bible, Milton, and other greats of a bygone era. Now compare him to the cipher presently in the White House. Ridiculous! Lincoln: “With malice toward none; charity for all....” Obama: “Hope and change and forward.” What a moron, a man of the times and for the times. That says it all. And he invited Jay-Z (pimp my scenario) to the White House. My God, what a fraud! And this clod went to Harvard.