Higher education? If you got the bucks.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 by Uvah | Discussion: Everything Else
This popped up on the news a couple of hours ago. Two well known actresses, a co-founder of a global law firm and other assorted very rich people shelled out millions of dollars to get their kids into elite colleges. Why am I not surprised.
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Reply #22 Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:42 AM
We had that here.... then one buffoon replaced another, as is usually the case.
The administration in charge of this country makes it a point of appointing people who actually are running down the department they are appointed to. For example, Scott Pruitt who's background was full of scandals. He was put in charge of the EPA but if you look you'll see that in Oklahoma he sued the EPA 14 times! So if you want to destroy a department put someone like that in charge of it. His tenure as chief of the EPA was mired in controversy and near scandal.
Reply #23 Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:59 AM
Pay big bucks...still come out dumber than a bag of wet hair. You can't fix stupid. 
Reply #24 Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:24 AM
And the shmuck who replaced him is no better. Then there is the ersatz science council appointed to 'discuss' climate change. The head of which claimed that CO2, a green house gas, was being unfairly persecuted. Imagine that. Highly educated they are. 
Reply #25 Sunday, March 17, 2019 12:46 AM
And the shmuck who replaced him is no better. Then there is the ersatz science council appointed to 'discuss' climate change. The head of which claimed that CO2, a green house gas, was being unfairly persecuted. Imagine that. Highly educated they are.
Unfairly persecuted? That's not a lot different to saying that a mass murderer who's on the run is being unfairly persecuted when a manhunt is mounted to catch him/her.
Like I said before, some of the more 'highly educated' are actually the least intelligent.
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Reply #21 Saturday, March 16, 2019 3:21 AM
Quoting starkers,
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A degree means nothing at the end of the day, because essentially it's just a piece of paper.
You can say that but in the U.S. the better jobs go to people with degrees. That's a fact.
It's the same here in Australia.... that's why we have idiots running the asylum. Over my 65 years I have met and worked with many people with degrees and found over 50% have little to no common sense, are generally inept at just about everything and know little to nothing of the jobs they were hired to do. Frankly, I'd use their degrees as toilet paper, yet they continue to get the top jobs.
I'm not saying that all people with degrees are idiots... just a lot of those I have met. I've also met people who worked hard at university to become the best they could be, and a lot of those are/were umemployed because they are supposedly over-qualified. Over-qualified???? I mean, how could anyone be over-qualified because they have more than one degree and can do a bit more than the job in question requires? It's about money, really, not having to pay more than the advertised salary.
Add the fact that we have a unqualified billionaire in charge of the education system in this country.
We had that here.... then one buffoon replaced another, as is usually the case.