College is for clowns...
Famed former Wall Street broker Jordan Belfort commented on the diminishing value of a college education, after a new report found some college students learned less than high school graduates a decade after their enrollment. College is a "complete waste of time" for most students, he believes.
"If you want to be a professional, a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or something that really requires a degree then yes, you should go to college, and you should try to go to the best school you can and make the most of it," Belfort said while on "Varney & Company" on Tuesday.
"But all of these other sort of softer subjects like gender studies and all this other stuff, what are you going to do with that stuff, honestly? So I think it’s a complete waste of time," he added [https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/wolf-of-wall-street-says-college-complete-waste-time-students-avoid-plague].
As we age and begin to ponder what we want to do when we “grow up,” higher education soon enters into the equation. But in the 21st century, would it be ridiculous to contemplate that there is more than one path? Sentiments that college is a waste of time have slowly bubbled up into the mainstream.
Perhaps you’ve even encountered such a perspective yourself. Organizations like Praxis and Mike Rowe have long asserted that college isn’t synonymous with success. And that a good living is possible without the burden of time and money that college requires... If I asked you to list people from the last 50 years whom you’d consider to be the wealthiest, who would come to mind?
I’m betting you’d name people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, whose products run the world. Or maybe Mark Zuckerberg, whose company possesses the world’s greatest contact database. What about the late Walt Disney, a name that represents one of the largest media empires in existence. There’s Michael Dell, who made computing affordable for the massess. And Richard Branson, with a business model that permeates droves of different verticals.
If that’s not good enough, how about someone in our own industry? Indeed, you can find many who come from various places on the spectrum of life, there is one thing that is true for them all. Every single one of them were college dropouts. That is, if they even went to college at all [https://careeroncommand.com/college-is-a-waste-of-time/].
COMMENTARY: College education is a racket, always has been. Sure, a lot of people think that college gives a person a leg up in life. Speaking as a sociologist, its only the circle of friends and acquaintances that you create at college that actually gives you that 'leg up', if you are clever about it. What about doctors and surgeons? They can be trained the same as a car mechanic. And, that goes for lawyers too and engineers.
Thousands of intelligent people (college grad and not) have been passed by for someone who 'knew someone' on the inside or through similar circles of 'butt kissing'. No, I don't have a chip on my shoulder like you want to think I do. I just despise nepotism and the who's who crap along with all the politically correct virtue signally one has to do in order to get noticed or appreciated let alone ahead.
Those people named above in the article excerpts, who were not college grads, still became incredibly successful because they were smart, bold risk takers and they made sure that they were in the right place at the right time in order to get noticed. If they did not, they still persevered rather than blame anyone or anything.
Why would I say that having a PhD? Because, my experience was exactly as I stated... 'butt kissing'. Which means, always having to align yourself with the right people, and the right prof. who can promote you. What I learned, I know by reading published works in my field and observations in the field of qualitative studies.
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