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Bill Gates, Bill Gates, Bill Gates! Of the ones on this list still alive (and I'm sorry, I don't know who all of them are), most are in entertainment/business. John D Rockefeller, are you kidding me? That was an entirely different era. Even in IT these days, it is necessary to have a degree.
Most on that list are not in the entertainment business, but I'm not sure that is relevant.
I believe both academic and skilled trade education should be available for anyone that wants to learn any time in their lives.
They are available to anyone.
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Originally Posted by GregW
I believe we do not support education because we have a popular culture reinforced by Television
But we do support education. The government takes hundreds of billions of dollars from millions of hard working tax payers every year to pay for education.
Many of us think that education is extremely important. In fact, it's so important that the government should get out of the way.
Which america would that be? My america pretty well has it's priorities mapped out ok.
"Your America" is going to reap what it sows in the future as it ignores human and physical infrastructure IN AMERICA in favor of short term concerns.
Trillion dollars + over the past few years to fight in and build the infrastructure in foreign lands, while our own crumbles. Investment building schools in Afghanistan, while schools across America are in danger of closing. Nobody blinks an eye at giving corporations so many tax breaks and incentives that some companies pay less than their workers, many of whom are strapped with student loans. Few hundred billion for new planes while we whine about money meant to keep people from falling to poverty and crime.
These are simply examples of people who most would recognize.
Millions of people achieve financial success without a college degree. And that is not to diminish the need for education.
But a college degree is certainly not necessary.
Statistically, a college degree will earn you more money. Now I realize that statistics don't work for individuals. Giving examples of people who made it big w/o a degree such as old dead white men, athletes, entertainers, and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is not realistic.
During the late 19th century, the US decided to offer free education for all children whether they are rich or poor. The proposal was for making a generation literate to work the factories of the industrial age. Public education created functionally literate people to fuel the American economic system.
Now that we are in a globalized world, which requires educated and skilled people to fuel economic growth in this country, we should allow anyone in the US to attend college free of charge. It makes sense in this global economy.
It's time to reset the way we do things, People.
I agree and we can pay for this largesse by confiscating the rich endowments of the private colleges and universites. You want to hear liberals scream?
]"Your America" is going to reap what it sows in the future as it ignores human and physical infrastructure IN AMERICA in favor of short term concerns.[/i]Trillion dollars + over the past few years to fight in and build the infrastructure in foreign lands, while our own crumbles. Investment building schools in Afghanistan, while schools across America are in danger of closing. Nobody blinks an eye at giving corporations so many tax breaks and incentives that some companies pay less than their workers, many of whom are strapped with student loans. Few hundred billion for new planes while we whine about money meant to keep people from falling to poverty and crime.
You mean like the stimulus package that managed to spend a trillion dollars and gave us things like turtle overpasses, socially conscious puttet shows, replica railroad tourist attractions, and floating museums? Just what do we reap when we sow crap like this?
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