Seven Reasons Not to Send Your Kids to College

The reason that so many become liberal after they get a college degree is because they realize that Adam and Eve are either a whole lot older or they didn't exist. They also realize that many things taught by religion are most likely impossible and highly improbable.

Their views are forced to shift to a more real perspective on so many things. Instead of viewing everything in the world from a skewed perspective they begin to see much of what they were taught as children was taught by under-educated people much of the time. Things falling out of the sky are not necessarily Gods or Angels but instead something quite possibly from space or out of an apple tree. They basically graduate from being "Chicken Littles" to intelligent beings capable of thinking for themselves.

This ability alienates them from the GOP side of things because now they can realistically and logically think. They can spot bullshit more readily.

Most Americans have read the bible or at least parts of it. I have read almost all of it except for the part in the old testament where it goes on for pages and pages about who begat who and so on and so on. I started looking for a gun so I could shoot myself. After I took three darts to the head I decided to just skip those pages.

Reading it and believing it are two different things. Reading it and believing only parts of it is another thing all together. There are some parts of it that do seem to be plausible and verifiable were other parts are beyond ludicrous and fall into the category of ancient thought processes that were incapable of being defined realistically thus were given default explanations of being something mystical and magical.

Solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, meteor showers and the like were something of mystical and magical origin and yet now are nothing of the sort. Even as recent as four hundred years ago, Nostradamus described Apache Helicopters as dragon flies in the sky shooting fire from their mouths. He didn't know what else to liken them to and yet now they are easily defined.

Sorry, I got side tracked. Now what were you saying about the Obama's?

I was born liberal , in a conservative family . It is a matter of compassion as well as intellect .

You want to talk about the real world? Yeah, college professors sure excel at the real world...

I was born in to a racist, conservative and moderate to extreme religious Mormon environment. It was hell during the week and God on Sundays. Compassion and intellect? I would have to agree.

Some do and some don't.

The thing I have noticed with people with degrees versus people without degrees is this. There are many companies that require you to have a degree in order to even be hired. Some companies will promote you from a lower position into a position that generally requires a degree if you can show that you have the aptitude or ability to perform the job. When times get lean and the company needs to downsize or let people go, many companies will mandate the non-degree people are to be reduced to lower positions or let go first before any one with degrees. I have seen where this sometimes eliminates some of the more capable people and keeps the ones that are dumber than a post with degrees. Degrees don't necessarily make you smart or intelligent, you have to be born with some of that. The education can supplement it and buy you some clout.

At least in the media industry, people don't really go to college to "learn", but make contacts and build a portfolio/reel. I'd hope that in time, social networks can level the playing field and maybe even democratize higher ed, but most of the efforts posted up thus far have been failures.
But if it's any indication of how resistant many older generations are these days, Gen Y won't be setting the agenda for quite a while. This will require a complete generational transition.

That was my experience too . Either you had the talent before or you didn't . My portfolio got me in the door , my personality and skill got the job . Best education I got was from a mentor I had .

I think it depends on the field of interest. I too have been promoted based on my abilities but in the end I was also downsized due to the lack of a degree in spite of my accomplishments. I worked for an international company and corporate mandated that all non-degree people were first to be reduced. I have to admit, there was a fair amount of politics involved on the local level at the time as well. Sometimes, people get shuffled to more vulnerable positions before they can be legitimately diminished. Politics is a nasty game if you are not in a position of power to play it. A degree in some cases helps to balance the playing field a bit.