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You could say that about college in general. College doesn't make people successful, successful people go to college

• digi_owl 10y ago
  And yet the (champagne) left has sold the public on the idea that education solves all ills...
  • StClaire 10y ago
    I'm not arguing. I think I would have been better off taking some college courses instead of actually going to college
• pnathan 10y ago
  > College doesn't make people successful, successful people go to college That's a wonderful epigram. Did you come up with that? I'd like to remember it and properly source it.
  • StClaire 10y ago
    Yes.
• MengerSponge 10y ago
  You can say lots of things that are BS. College is a prerequisite for professional degrees. Hacker News crowd notwithstanding, your career earning potential is reduced if you only have a secondary education. Note that not all college degrees are equal. Obviously. Four-ish years of dedicated study changes your mind appreciably, which is the real objective. Also, finishing a degree signals your ability to function in a somewhat opaque bureaucracy, which means you'll be able to follow dumb rules and still get stuff done in a business organization.