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Can’t or won’t?

Face the fact that some majors and degrees are interesting but not marketable.  Simply having a college degree is not enough to guarantee a secure financial future.

Can’t or won’t

Acknowledge that all courses are not created equally.  It is your time and money.  If education [...]

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Relax, the final exam is cancelled

On January 12, 2012 By

Only 23% of college courses require a final examination.

What?

Only 23% of college courses require a final examination.

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.  The students are running the colleges.

The case against final exams are that they are stressful and don’t really help students. It’s a final so [...]

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How to get into Harvard, Part Two

On January 5, 2012 By

If you graduate from Harvard, you are set for life.  This is a fact.  This is a good thing to be.

You can screw up and screw up and keep screwing up and you will keep getting new chances and new backers.  If  you graduated from Harvard, you must be very intelligent, wealthy, privileged and [...]

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How to get into Harvard, Part One

On January 4, 2012 By

Be 1 of the 140 Chinese out of 1 billion who are awarded Harvard science scholarships.

This is NOT you.

Be the high school valedictorian, football team all star, fluent in Arabic who has volunteered in Central America and won both Mike Huckabee’s FOX acclaim and Oprah’s OWN accolades for saving three ghetto children from [...]

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Well, you’d work instead.  If you make the national average salary of $45,000, in four years, you’d have $180,000.   If you only made $30,000 a year, you’d have $120,000.

You would have this money and you wouldn’t have between $40,000 and $200,000 in debt.

But what about that college education?

Yah, what about it? [...]

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How about if I tell you that today, there are over 36 college presidents who make over a million dollars a year?

OK, how about if you are the plain old president of a plain old college?  Odds are that you won’t be disappointed by a salary of $300,000, will you?

Yes, [...]

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Duh, yes, all children should be give the GIFT of a strong work ethic.

Children WITH a strong work ethic will prosper in the coming decades.

Children WITHOUT a strong work ethic will be left behind.  Children WITHOUT a strong  work ethic will be perpetual basement dwellers.

Parents who do not instill a strong work [...]

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Why College Teaching Sucks

On June 6, 2011 By

Ever heard of the blind leading the blind?

How about the chickens leading the sheep?

You are the sheep and many of your college professors are the chickens.

Over seventy percent of college professors are NOT in tenure track positions.  This means that the overwhelming majority of professors teach from semester to [...]

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College is a rip-off

On June 2, 2011 By

Is college a waste of money?

Well, half of this year’s college graduates WON’T find jobs and many who do find jobs will work in jobs that DO NOT require a college degree.

So, for lots of graduates the answer on whether college is a good investment has to be, HELL NO.

And, as media mogul Mort Zuckerman [...]

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College graduates in the years 2006 – 2008 had starting salaries averaging $30,000.

College graduates in the years 2009 – 2010 had starting salaries averaging $27,000.

THIS IS A DROP OF TEN PERCENT 10%!

But, if you were even able to find a job, thank your lucky stars.

You are making something.  [...]

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