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Originally Posted by Guest
Responding to all of the above, my son (graduate, MBA, and daughter in law (graduate) together earn over half a million a year. I, as a college grad, managed to pick "Liberal Arts" and made nowhere near that ever in any salaried position...so I made my living in real estate. Nevertheless, I used my education in that I was able to make conversation with people of every background, since I knew a "little" about a lot of things. It never hurts to know how to spell and use the English language correctly, to know where Belgium is located (it happened) or to know something about a hobby your client may be interested in. Anybody can do that, of course, but I still believe higher education gives you the background where you don't have to start from scratch.
Beyond just the basics of education, the college experience teaches an 18 year old how to live with all kinds of other people, how to adjust being thrown into a totally different experience, how to use your brain discussing subjects with other bright people, how to challenge your professors (without getting flunked), and generally gives young people time to grow up. Military service might do the same, I guess.
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Nicely put. I am probably the wrong person to go to about the value of education having four degrees and spending time at the University of Nevada, Reno; BYU Law School; the University of Denver Graduate School in Librarianship and Information Management; the College of San Mateo; and the University of Minnesota Law School as well as a number of language classes at the U of MN. All this education for the 224 613 Project and working my way through all this in some way or another. Work/study, a stipend grant, night school, some student loans, etc. I have met thousands of people in my academic travelings and helped quite a number as a reference librarian of some kind at some of these colleges and universities.
I did create a vast network for helping with the 224 613 Project but that does not put bread on the table.
This is a work in progress though and involves hundreds of thousands of people.
It did teach me to think critically which is very useful and I sometimes do OK on the FunTrivia.com games.
I have not come up with a way to make money from this humanitarian work of mine though. And it is a great deal of work but done pro bono.
Other schools and universities are very much involved in this 224 613 Project as well. You would have to see my Facebook page to know that however and I fear all the trolls and even worse people who might be on here now. So, most people will not see those Facebook documents.