Feb 5, 2010 -- 10:46PM, Seth wrote:

It depends what degree it is. Different degrees are worth different amounts. Science, engineering and math majors make pretty good money. Philosophy and English lit majors don't have a practical purpose, and therefore are not compensated as well. But the real value of higher education is shaping young men into creative, free thinkers, who inevitably give much more back to society than they consume.

If I get an classical education, and I teach another something I learned, and that person uses what I teach him to invent immortality, we're all better off. Education works collectively to elevate the status of all people. But hard work is what people get paid for. Where I live, plumbers make $200,000-$300,000 per year. But plumbing is hard work. Everyone who makes money has to earn it. It really doesn't matter what a person does for a living. If one strives for excellence, he will make a good living.

Females can even make a good living, if they're inclined to work outside the family domestic quarters. I've found most females attending college just end up getting drunk and losing their virginity. Then they're useless as wives, because they can't bear blessed offspring of a fertile obedient submissive holy and chaste womb. Once a girl releases her blood and water, she can never do it again. It's a crying shame.

 

 

 

 

How warped......................You are off the charts.

Feb 5, 2010 -- 11:57AM, Erey wrote:

I am glad you echo my experience of going to college right after high school.

This is why I think community colleges should be given a bigger share of the attention in improving education.

I think we do have alot of problems in k-12 but I don't know if there is a whole lot that can be done about most of these issues.  The facts are it is near impossible to take such a buerocratic institution like public education and make it work for each individual child.  And kids also have their own personal issues that school really can't address.

That is why it is important that it never be too late to become educated.  If you can take the time away from your family and work responsibilities and have a few extra hundred dollars you can go and expand your education starting at a community college.  I know this is impossible for some people but the dream should always be there. 

Just because you are not college ready at 18 should not mean you have no chance to improve yourself with education.  YOu might only need vocational or an associates degree which the community college can provide.  Or you might go further to a 4 year school and get a bachelor's degree. 

Community colleges are an awesome idea, for youth just out of high school -- but not focused enough for a university -- or older people wanting to expand their options. They also bring college opportunities to isolated places -- like my little Wyoming town of about 3,000 people -- that might not otherwise have them.

I've been thinking of going back to school myself, even though I'm pushing age 43, because the profession I got my degree was shrinking and losing jobs like crazy even long before the current recession started. And now? LOL, let's not even go there. Anyway, if I go that route, it's good to know there is a community college just down the street from my house.

I agree wholeheartedly with Jane2 and Agnosticspirit that this 'seth' person is most definitely off the charts and somewhere west of la-la land in his/her/its medieval thinking. 

However, I have a feeling that the post was meant as some sort of warped joke just to 'get' to people.  At least, I hope that was what was going on with this person.  Because I'd hate to think that somebody hated women that much.

Feb 6, 2010 -- 5:39PM, IreneAdler wrote:

I don't think Seth's degree is worth a whole lot- assuming he has one.

Maybe he should ask for a refund.

Irene.

The first part of his post actually makes a lot of sense. If you replace young "men" with young "people," -- it's actually very insightful.

But he lost me with his views on women.

Besides, IMO, no man of good, strong character is going to be interested in a dim-witted, submissive woman for a wife anyway. We like strong, capable women with minds of their own.