I’m a drop-out English major, and a little bitter. But a lot of the problems with my so-called college career had to do with other problems I had at the time, some of them of my own making.
To me one if the re al problems is what I call “education inflation”. That is you need a degree to even apply for a job that a high school or e en 8th grade grad could have done in grandfathers day. This may seem to contradict what I said earlier about a foundation in Western civ etc., but people can get some of that in grade and high school. We studied Shakespeare in high school(ok, it was in an elective class). Homeschooled people are very likely to have that type of stuff.
I have a friend who claims that the reason Mickey Mouse jobs require coege degrees is that they would like to give people I Q tests, but can’t, so figure that will serve the same purpose. Rush Limbaugh claims its just an arbritrary screening device for jobs that get a gazillion applicants. I don’t really buy either of these theories.
I also heard Michael Medved say that having “some” college but no degree on your application or resume is worse than none because it makes you look like a quitter. That’s pretty sad, because despite all the pain and problems, I have no doubt whatsoever that my bit of college has enriched my life and made me smarter. I probably would have never read Ulysses on my own, for example.
Medved is a turd. Don’t let anything he says get you down.
“...they would like to give people I Q tests...”
In 1959 when I was drafted into the U.S. Army they were giving I Q tests to all new recruits. Don’t know if that is still the case, but it was then. (And I know my score...). As a result of that and my BA-Chemistry I was assigned to the Army Medical Research Lab at Ft Knox. Work-wise there I reported to two civilian PhD’s. It was a great experience.