Hiring for a job, management thinks candidates with the degrees are more capable than those without one, neglecting the real knowledge.
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I believe (hope?) employers are starting to pay a little more attention to accomplishment and potential, and a little less to academic credentialing.
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Absolutely. Have been told by numerous professors that some employers don’t give a damn about your degree, just previous experience. Makes me wonder if I’m wasting my time and money with College.
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You're not. Keep going.
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Starting college but not finishing signals to most employers a lack of commitment and follow-through. Earning the degree matters. Now that you are on that path, keep going. It's best to get it in four years. Even better to get it in under four.
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@bryan_caplan has written a great deal about these choices. A podcast that’s worth a listen:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?mt=2&i=1000402059009 … -
Thanks man!
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Also, am I the only one that sees the irony in the responses that dont get the point of this tweet?
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There is at least one additional person who also sees it. Thanks!
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We get it. It’s super tragic. And takes a whole lot of disruption to fix. The more employers think outside the box, the more schools will change. I hope they will...
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this is a wildly stupid analogy
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Its not an analogy at all. Its a hypothetical.
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it's a stupid one of those too. hope this helps
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Yes. It helps clarify that you are illiterate.
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guess i should have skipped going to school and learned to read naturally
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I wouldn't be so quick to blame the system. Your shortcomings might be genetic.
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pretty wild how people with zero social skills somehow believe they're innate, or possible to be taught by parents
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You missed the point! it makes fun of the idea that if you didn’t learn a specific skill from school then you didn’t learn it properly or it’s less valuable because you learned without going.
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Because in a single generation the whole of humanity would acquiesce to the almighty education system (which is the same across all global cultures) in totality. This notion is naive.
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2 We know so much more about how people learn now. Or methods and or institutions need to evolve.
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This lack of evolution must explain the flimsiness of this analogy. Which I understand. I’m just saying it’s lazy in its execution.
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I will try to do better. Thank you for your encouragement! If you know of a class that will allow me to overcome my laziness and flimsy analogy-making, I would appreciate the recommendation!
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Analogy school. It's a certification program. I believe Ralph Waldo Emerson was it's first provost.
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But that school is harder to get into than a, uh, ... ugh. I don’t know. I didn’t get in.
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