Re:Do You Really Have to Go to College?
by AutoCorrect on Monday March 11, 2013 @09:42AM
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yeah, that piece of paper is kinda like the HS Diploma that those 80% of graduates who can't read received (NY article earlier in the week). The college degree is just as useless. How many people remember everything, or even a large portion of what they read in college? Or still remember all of the lectures? Even going to college and getting a degree is no guarantee that the person will be capable of doing the job.
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What is the probability that a person without a diploma can read? You see, its a credential that means something to people who do not know the person. Even if the difference between the probability a person can read given a diploma and one without is shrinking, it still has value. Furthermore, I remember a lot of what I learned in college. What I dont fully remember, I still remember the basic concept. This aids me in a general understanding of what is possible, knowledge of possible solutions, and furthermore, if I actually need to know more detail about it it would be very fast to learn what I had forgotten (like a cache miss).