Comments on: I Shouldn’t Want to Be Liked So Much

By: jmdanmar

jmdanmar — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:54:00 +0000

James that’s a great idea. Hire the best promoter you can and do a college tour! :-) Can you imagine how insanely great that would be?

By: Axwvwdo Joel

Axwvwdo Joel — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000

I’m with you Jame Saltucher. Since I quit from college I have been way more productive. I think majority of the society don’t like to be productive. That’s why u didn’t like them. Now I also regret all the time I spend since first grade, but my parent didn’t really know what I know now. I’m sure I will not send my kids to school when I have them. I will teach them calculus when they get 6. And they will become like super heroes of the society.

By: Axwvwdo Joel

Axwvwdo Joel — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:58:00 +0000

I’m with you Jame Saltucher. Since I quit from college I have been way more productive. I think majority of the society don’t like to be productive. That’s why u didn’t like them. Now I also regret all the time I spend since first grade, but my parent didn’t really know what I know now. I’m sure I will not send my kids to school when I have them. And they will become like super heroes of the society. I’m going to teach them calculus when they get 6.

By: isomorphisms

isomorphisms — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:56:00 +0000

College is fun. If the fun is worth the money to you then do it. I think even going for a semester would give you an idea of what goes on in college. Make some friends in the dorm, listen to learned people, then you can drop out if you feel the rest of the experience won’t be worth the money. On the other hand there are a lot of great things you can do with your time instead, if you’re creative and energetic.

Crucial question: is there a way to get the cheapest student loans without really being in college? Because then you could do some really interesting stuff.

By: rosita

rosita — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:37:00 +0000

I’d give you a trophy. I really appreciate the critical thinking and honesty on these “American Religion” topics.

Our educational system is a joke and I haven’t learned much of anything in a classroom since I stopped being home schooled in 9th grade. I wish I had realized this before I was stupid enough to go to college. I’ve learned a lot, but it was entirely on top of any faux education that I/taxpayers paid for.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:20:00 +0000

my kids are homeschooled. i’ve been actively discouraging them from going to college for years. my older son is 14 this year and determined to go to college immediately. i told him today that i almost don’t hate the idea of going to college if you’re 14 — that seems like a more appropriate age for college. much like my mother when she went to college as an adult, with the social aspect out of the way, i feel like he would concentrate on the learning aspect. especially since he’d have no driver’s license yet and therefore limited freedom.

i suspect he’ll figure out it’s bullsh*t and quit anyway. better now than later!

reading your opinions on college cheers me immensely because i know i’m not the only one. my usual speech to my sons and/or anyone who will listen is what an incredible education you could get if you gave yourself the same amount of time (four or five years) and money. you could travel, take classes with experts, apprentice yourself to craftsmen, write books, have life experiences, make art, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. basically homeschooling college.

you’re just at the front wave of this trend. people hate being told that their way is wrong, and you’re telling them that their way is wrong. eventually it’ll all tilt over to our side, and you can bask. you pointed out that naked emperor way back when.

this disagreement (you vs. them) has nothing to do with education and learning and debt and everything to do with going along with the group. every single person i’ve asked has said they learned nothing in college and everything on the job. yet virtually all of them want their kids to go to school because that’s just the way it is. they don’t want to make things harder on their kids.

it’s easier for entrepreneurs to embrace these ideas. we know there’s a whole world off the beaten path and it almost always includes a shortcut. the mass of men only know the beaten path and they are loathe to leave it.

By: fabian

fabian — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:40:00 +0000

It’s important to make the distinction. Effectively you have degrees and degrees. There was a lot of press lately about former students drowning in debts and without a job. You read their stories and all the whining and at the end they tell that they graduate in cross religion studies, women studies or middle age dance. If gov doesn’t hire, these people are doomed. The problem now is that you need a master degree to teach math to 8 year old kids but amongst the richest people I know, one was a baker the other was selling meat balls on the streets of Adam.

By: Nathania Johnson

Nathania Johnson — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:45:00 +0000

I gave a satircal talk called “We don’t need no education” once. it went over well, but i had the right audience.

most of the time, people hate the idea of giving up, as you say, the religion of higher education.

it’s coming though. Radley Balko says that libertarianism is something that happens to people. It’s the same with the future of education. Sites like KhanAcademy.org, Aleks.com, Wilostar3d, Lynda.com, and even Rosetta Stone are turning everything on its head.

let the smug be smug. the future is here for those of us who are ready.

By: Nathania Johnson

Nathania Johnson — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:45:00 +0000

link to my satirical talk – http://www.youtube.com/natschat#p/a/u/1/esR9XppNLBU

By: A.T.

A.T. — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:51:00 +0000

I think it is worth mentioning that the value of college largely depends on your learning style. I personally can’t learn by listening to lectures so I have always taught myself out of the text-book.

I just graduated from a 4 year and feel like I wasted my time. I could have learned the same information by just buying the text book. I could have gained more self-confidence by traveling and would have met more interesting and worthwhile people as well. College did however help me gain discipline and taught me how to do research in order to learn on my own so it wasn’t all bad.