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Tuesday, February 4. 2014

Thank God I wasn’t college material

I was pretty good college material because I have always been curious about everything, have always read up on anything I did not know about, and have always had adequate verbal and mathematical abilities.


Feeling ignorant was a blessing for me because I always wanted to fight it, and learning new things has always been one of my joys.


Still, I liked this from Matt Walsh: Thank God I wasn’t college material.


Posted by The Barrister in Education, Our Essays at 13:13 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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One of the driving forces for requiring a degree for a job was the federal government decision to prevent employers from giving written test to job applicants. The government figured that employers would use these tests as an excuse to racially discriminate.

The result was to ramp up demand for college, a rise in tuition and fees as a response to this increase in demand and ended up saddling students with education debt so that they could qualify for a job that did not require a college degree in the first place and does not pay enough to justify the out of pocket expense or the wages not earned while in school.
#1 Freddie Sykes on 2014-02-04 19:53 (Reply)

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