tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post7587250578129291095..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: College Is Not a Means Unto ItselfCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-69579291548208023182014-09-07T07:48:01.514-07:002014-09-07T07:48:01.514-07:00My sister spent four years at college, didn't ...My sister spent four years at college, didn't finish her degree, and defends her time there and the expense to the taxpayer and our parents as "needed to <b>find</b> myself". I love my sister and she is an awesome person, but such blinders.heresolonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00461382067580153600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-83321415438956149712014-09-06T18:18:04.318-07:002014-09-06T18:18:04.318-07:00I try to use this quote from a 1926 article by Per...I try to use this quote from a 1926 article by Percy Marks. He was a professor who according to Wikipedia wrote the Animal House the the 1920s, The Plastic Age. This is about as fair an assessment of college I've seen. Problem is, college isn't so much a hot house anymore. College is more like the vacant lots in a Progressive controlled city. Occasionally, a bright flower will find purchase but mostly it is a tangle of weeds:<br /><br /><i>The idea is, of course, that men are successful because they have gone to college. No idea was ever more absurd. No man is successful because he has managed to pass a certain number of courses and has received a sheepskin which tells the world in Latin, that neither the world nor the graduate can read, that he has successfully completed the work required. If the man is successful, it is because he has the qualities for success in him; the college "education" has merely, speaking in terms' of horticulture, forced those qualities and given him certain intellectual tools with which to work-tools which he could have got without going to college, but not nearly so quickly. So far as anything practical is concerned, a college is simply an intellectual hothouse. For four years the mind of the undergraduate is put "under glass," and a very warm and constant sunshine is poured down upon it. The result is, of course, that his mind blooms earlier than it would in the much cooler intellectual atmosphere of the business world. <br /><br />A man learns more about business in the first six months after his graduation than he does in his whole four years of college. But-and here is the "practical" result of his college work-he learns far more in those six months than if he had not gone to college. He has been trained to learn, and that, to all intents and purposes, is all the training he has received. To say that he has been trained to think is to say essentially that he has been trained to learn, but remember that it is impossible to teach a man to think. The power to think must be inherently his. All that the teacher can do is help him learn to order his thoughts-such as they are. </i><br /><br />Marks, Percy, "Under Glass", Scribner's Magazine Vol 73, 1923, p 47<br /><br />http://www.archive.org/stream/scribnersmag73editmiss#page/46/mode/2up<br />JKBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-86778267811707778322014-09-06T15:03:53.158-07:002014-09-06T15:03:53.158-07:00I agree with your post on every level, except the ...I agree with your post on every level, except the conclusion. Some years ago I recognised this problem and I realised that what these young people need is an example of an alternative to college. This is what I wrote and I still get contacted about it today.<br /><br />http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/79/edf/changing-your-life-787/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-40258788056533688182014-09-06T12:45:27.609-07:002014-09-06T12:45:27.609-07:00Keep in mind that older generations of women did f...Keep in mind that older generations of women did fine in getting their MRS degree from college. The degeneracy of modern college is at least half explained by the degeneracy of modern women.<br /><br />Really, college would be at least minimally acceptable if the women were feminine, and the men weren't excessively disciplined betas. The men ARE trying to get good jobs, but have no charisma or hustling ability whatosever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-19722922543210370602014-09-06T12:37:20.444-07:002014-09-06T12:37:20.444-07:00My son is 11, and his mother, who immigrated here ...My son is 11, and his mother, who immigrated here 14 years ago from a country with abject poverty, (Brazil), has been drilling both myself and my kid about college for him since, well, forever.<br /><br /> Now, I've got a graduate education in a STEM field, which I don't use, having found happiness and a lot more money than any STEM work by working on boats, which enabled me to pay off the 6-figure student loan debt handily. <br /><br /> So, having said that, you've been able to articulate a point I've been trying unsuccessfully to make for some time, so thank you very much for preaching to the choir. I certainly had more success with my kid in that regard. His latest thought, articulated just recently, was that if he didn't apply to be one of my deckhands at 18, he'd go the ROTC route and let Uncle Sugar pay much of the bills for college. Smart kid. At that age, boys vacillate between wanting to drive a dump truck or be a doctor, but I figure either one pays better than the degree in Native American Transgender Studies that his peers will probably gravitate towards.Paul, Dammit!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02264872375942355609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-50890129327548323562014-09-06T11:55:04.013-07:002014-09-06T11:55:04.013-07:00I might buy that if mommy and daddy paid for it. ...I might buy that if mommy and daddy paid for it. If I got stuck with the bill, I'd think again. <br /><br />Wandering MGTOWhttp://af5oo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-23077394988020394602014-09-06T09:50:11.007-07:002014-09-06T09:50:11.007-07:00Ever notice that those who claim "you can'...Ever notice that those who claim "you can't put a price on education" are usually the same ones charging you an arm, leg and testicle for it?<br /><br />Funny, that.Wraithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791730539181731523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-92228219667024148702014-09-06T09:27:04.915-07:002014-09-06T09:27:04.915-07:00It is a good post............<br />It is a good post<a href="//guide4blog.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//storyinbengali.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//wbexampaper.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//jokesinbengali.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//%20bengalijokes18.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//freebengalicomics.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//chudachudichotigalpo.blogspot.in/" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//sexyxxxwallpaper.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//%20choti0.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//%20choti13.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//sexyactress0.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="//magichudachudi.blogspot.in" rel="nofollow">.</a><br />S Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363753603217987966noreply@blogger.com