Anti-education tirade? I have five children with a sixth on the way. I value education very much. So much, actually, that we homeschool our children. We use an online program, www.classicalliberalarts.com ,in case you are truly interested. If my kids want to go to college, they can go to college. If my kids want to start their own business and can succeed without going to college then so be it! I am not stuck on this myth of yours that you a person is nothing without an education. If my girls just want to be wives and mothers and find a suitable husband then why should they go to college? To get a job so they can work to buy material things and send their kids to daycare for someone else to raise? I am open to whatever my kids are interested in. But a college education is not the only determining factor to having a happy life.
Are your parents, aunts and uncles unhappy? By whose standards did they not “make something of themselves”? Was their house not big enough? Their car not new enough? What? How are you making this determination?
You shock me with this post (if you are telling the truth). I am a big advocate of homeschooling. I have four children and happily married. We stress education in our house. I get to make the determination on success as that is what being an American is all about....so sad that you don’t agree with that. Look I am sure that there are many people out there who are successful with out a college degree but many more without. Try getting a decent job TODAY without a college degree. Many companies use computers to sift through the job applications and if you don’t have a college degree of any type you don’t even get a consideration. Sure you can work at Walmart or the local auto shop but if you want to be a doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer, nurse, teacher or any profession in that arena you HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE. I am sorry if that burns you but that is the way it is. Perhaps moving to another country (not Europe or Canada) might ensure success without a college degree but even that is not a guarantee. Of course many folks like Kate plus Eight get their own TV show and clearly she does not have an education. A reality show might work for you.
She becomes a registered nurse when completing a diploma program at The Reading Hospital but Medical Center on Reading, Pennsylvania. She then worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Reading Hospital before 2004.[4]
Actually Kate finished some sort of diploma program....not sure what that means. I guess that is up to interpretation...... Maybe some on the job training with a certificate at the end since it was with the hospital. Some sort of candy striper but she received a modest check.
College can be a good place for a young woman to meet a husband.