DallasCowboys Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Hey Guys/Gals,Before I make my point let me give some back story first. Today in my Seminar History class in which we focus on Indian History I had to give a presentation and to be honest my presentation was pretty bad, and I felt damn near foolish when I finished; good thing it was not graded. Upon going back to my seat and feeling like a idiot it hit me how useless college is. The reason my presentation was bad was because I didn't put the effort in and I didn't put the effort in because I don't like Indian History. This point basically summarizes all of what college is to me, being forced to take classes that I don't enjoy to fill a requirement. Everything beyond basic math, science, and history which to me ended by around 7th grade I have learned on my own. The reason I made the effort to learn it, is because I enjoy it, plain and simple. I enjoy philosophy so I took it upon myself to learn it. Now I am not saying I haven't learned anything in college, I am saying that everything I learned was either useless to me or something I would have due to personal interest eventually learned on my own. What do you guys/gals think? Is college worth it?Thanks,David C. (Cowboys are in first place by the way incase nobody noticed haha) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 College would have been wasted time for me, so I chose the alternative of choosing to pursue ventures that interest me all of the time.Interest leads learning. When you're interested, you readily soak up what you need to know like a sponge.Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf DeVoon Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Is college worth it?Technology flows from great laboratories and industrial enterprises, all of which are tightly controlled by statists. The best we can do as pirates is to steal some of their code and use it against them -- and perhaps infiltrate a few scoundrels into their corporate bedrooms, for the purpose of intelligence gathering. This is the moral meaning of a college education, by the way: to spy on the enemy and crack his technical treasure house. [Laissez Faire Law, p.59] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 The best we can do as pirates is to steal some of their code and use it against them...Or better yet... write your own code and use it for yourself.Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McGowan Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I personally don't like school (in fact when I see children walking to school, the first thing I think is not "awe they are so cute" but "man, I feel sorry for them, they have 10+ more years to go) BUT in college I was introduced to painting and fell in love. If I hadn't been forced to do it as an requirement, I never would have found itschool- a love/ hate relationship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I learned my trade mostly in college.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I learned my trade mostly in college.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Words of wisdom for the pathetic professors who produce the pompous people of the education mills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 College can be valuable. Depends on what you want and need and the time and money to pay for it. It's also a good place for boys and girls to get together, relate and mate, maybe marriage too. Four years to explore the female body and to see if what's between the ears matches up for that's what really makes the sex primo. (Please, I can't write too well about the female perspective of guys wanting to mate before they otherwise relate. That's guys for you. It's biology. I'm a guy. When my father was at Antioch 85 years ago, however, he had to beat the girls off him. ["Oooh, John!"] That college was the number one college in the country then for getting laid. Since my Mother was the prettiest girl on campus he said yes to her, got her pregnant and married her--that was the honorable thing back then [his brother drove them across the GW Bridge up to Nyack, NY (this was 1934) where late at night they knocked on a preacher's door and tied the knot]--had my sister, then the rest of us, which explains why and how I'm here [on OL!].)If you're a guy looking for a guy you don't need the length of college to gin up a romantic relationship for jumping into bed is easily a first night thing while you have to take the gal out to eat, see a movie, send her flowers and do a Cyrano under her dorm window while all the girls come to their windows to giggle and laugh at you and your poetry. (I've no opinion about gals wanting gals. I do suspect that's a slog to get both up to hot to trotting.)--Randyyou should see what I deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 --Randyyou should see what I deletedYeah, like you did not see that even your "deletions" are part of the "cached" data now...Also, Mr. Newt used to argue that the last year of H.S. was the most expensive dating service in America.Additionally, the flowers and poetry are no longer needed. A.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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