Comment by markus_zhang 3 days ago
IMO most of the stuffs in colleges can be self taught nowadays so the only two benefits are 1) that piece of paper and 2) networking. And good network only exists for certain colleges so for the majority out there it’s just that piece of paper.
Yeah that’s true. But a paid education doesn’t provide too much motivation anyway. College education is stuffed with unnecessary courses not everyone needs but you have to take anyway.
Like any business. The only valuable thing is that paper and network (that is if it’s a top 50 school).
I didn’t take a single unnecessary course.
The course I took on Literature of the Apocalypse, in fall of 1999, is probably one you would say is unnecessary. It has proven quite valuable as I learned how to read a lot, a lot more quickly. I learned how to write quickly as well. I also learned a lot about an important aspect of our cultural and political context, as western society is dominated by doomsday cults (especially the atheistic ones, everyone’s got a utopia they are trying to sell in order to get you to sacrifice your life for them).
That's true, but without that piece of paper you're not getting past the hiring filters to even hope of landing an interview to showcase your skills to even get the lowest entry level job that's not flipping burgers. A college degree is the new high school degree.
Most of stuffs can, indeed. But how many have actually done so?
Like most investments in yourself, you get out of it what you put into it.