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Chainfire

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6. Colleges should teach people how to think, self discipline, express their thoughts, organize, and work with others.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 09:25 AM
Feb 2024

You learn that you can't party all night, and be effective the next day. Everything else can be learned on the job. Of course, I do want my Doctor to be well versed in anatomy, but that is a vocational study.

My wife has a master's degree in a field that she never worked in, it was not a waste of time. A degree shows that you had the guts to complete a four year long initiation and that you are probably a good risk for employment and with a little luck you can be trained to do your job. The additional value of learning such life enhancing subjects as art history or music can add to a pleasurable life.

Of course, college is not and should not be a vocational education program, but for many, that aspect of it is why they are willing to pony up long-term debt and delay entering into the world of income.

Colleges and Universities do a good job of teaching life skills until the Fascist come in to control the leadership and curriculum as DeSanits and his gang of Nazi bastards have been doing in Florida.

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