Could have saved a helluva lot of money...; )
People should not be led to believe that college is a place where you show up , they unscrew the top of your head and pour knowledge into your brain. Learning is not a passive activity. Some people love to learn. For other people, learning is very painful. College is not for everyone.
Worked at a McDonalds during High School, and attended a technical school after high school.
I have talked to people who have received masters and bachelors of useless degrees and have come tot he conclusion that most all colleges are complete and total scams and that the average schmuck who ends up in college are listless dupes who go there to get a useless ribbon that gives them bragging rights.
So many people with degrees that I meet have a sizable lacking when it comes to common sense.
“I reflected in my Mind on the extream Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dulness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.”
-S.Dogood 1722
As it was then it is now.
Thank you! The media loves to denigrate “flipping burgers” at Mcdonald’s. I worked there as a mom with young children in school during their school hours. Was promoted for working hard to assistant manager within a few years. Excellent training and good pay. Skip college, go for the min. wage job at Mcdonald’s, and shine within a few short years.
In the mid-80s when the oil crash occurred, for a time I had to deliver Popeye’s fried chicken for about six weeks.
I must say that it was an “education”.
The people who worked there, except I, were all minorities and were the happiest people I have ever known. They were always upbeat, smiling and laughing.
I asked one man who always worked a double-shift why he worked two shifts. He said, “I have to feed my family.” I then said, “Well, given the circumstances”, I asked why he was always happy. His response was, “Because I gots me a job!”
He was obviously not one of the leeches.
We didn’t have to work at McDonald’s to find out these things. In fact, there weren’t any fast-food restaurants when I was a kid. Growing up, we were taught to think of others first, before ourselves. Also, to always put ourselves in the other person’s shoes before even thinking of making fun of anyone. We were told to ask ourselves the question of how we’d feel if we were that person? The Golden Rule was taught in school. Politeness and consideration of other people’s feelings was drummed into our heads from the beginning. My mother always told us that we had to have respect for our elders, and say hello to them first. Also patriotism was a big part of our lives. My Dad was an immigrant from Holland as a little boy with his two brothers, and their parents in 1912. This country meant a great deal to him, and he instilled that love of country into his four kids.
When given the opportunity to go to high school, they took these cherished memories of what life would look like without that education, so that they had a little better appreciation of the opportunity.
Now, most likely, they haven't had to work in high school, and their only knowledge of the working world seems to be that which comes from college. Woe be unto the kids that majored in "diversity studies".
There's no baseline any more. We're too worried about kids feelings and self-esteem to teach them relevant work skills and tools for them to become effective workers.