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To: denizen48 who wrote (82070)	7/2/2010 4:25:22 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

>>College has become an industry unto itself. Most graduates come out with no career preperation. Their only real skill is that they learned how to learn. Tuition is way too high for that.<< I agree tuition is ridiculous. College should be free like it is in Sweden and Denmark. All the way to a PHD. I do not believe a society can invest more in education than they will get back from having an educated populace. College used to be resonable, but we quit subsidizing it. Learning how to learn, is the whole ball of wax. When I used to hire people, I hired people who knew how to learn. I worked my way through college. I used to work all night (graveyard shift) and then went straight to classes. I grew up in Richmond California and was poor and had an alcoholic father. But I knew I had to go to school. I was aware of my ignorance. When I finished just my BS degree, I had learned so much I was another person. When I started I did not even know what the word society meant and it took me a week to write a 500 word essay. I can dicate a final draft now in a minute or two. I look back on how I saw the world before and after college. Night and day.