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Originally Posted by kingsol
And getting a job and being successful will be but a by-product of my time in school, as I have already gained so much from my experiences at the college level.
It is always difficult to convince someone that they're missing out if they've never had that experience, but let me assure you... you're missing out.
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Yeah, you are right.. you can learn a lot in college, or when you go to get your masters or PHD - assuming you can remember the lessons you were taught and should have learned.
Just because you can remember something for an exam, doesnt mean you have the knowledge 5 or even 10 years from when you learned it - and it doesnt mean you'll even be remotely close to being able to apply it in the REAL WORLD. Especially when you take into consideration the amount of partying and drinking that most college kids are subjected to.
While knowledge is nice, real life experience is more important.
You can go back and fourth, but the reality is we ALL will experience life and become weathered ONE way or another. Its a fact that pretty much every honest and successful person will have to pay taxes, bills, mortgage, food, insurances, etc - and with that comes the fact that we all need to be able to stay afloat.
Its pointless to compare school vs no-school because we all end up in the real world being exposed to the above, and regardless of how much education you've achieved and how brilliant you are - you will be an absolute failure if you cant pay back your loans and work towards a successful future.
Either path is acceptable, as long as you are sharp enough to stay afloat. If your career path needs school, fine - if it doesnt, fine. But there are a lot of individuals who go to school, get their degree(s), have no idea about real life.. and still work a dead-end job taking commands from the boss. Same can apply to uneducated folks, repetitive manual labor is a bitch.