Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alex MG who wrote (238399)	11/21/2013 5:11:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542201

This is a matter of opinion, it seems to me. And I am sort of surprised to see you take the position you are taking. I like you too and have the very highest respect for you and your ideas. I also know you are honest and intellectually fearless. So how about we use the Socratic method to debate this. I think you and I can do it without rancor. Let us debate this. I think I can convince you that you are wrong. The two things in your post that stand out to me are one, the matter of cost: all education should be free in my opinion and two: you say college might not be useful. Education is always useful. Don't you see how the mind is developed? We are not born knowing how to think. Also, every study in the world shows the better educated the populace the better the society functions. So your post puzzles me. But Socrates said it best: "The unexamined life is not worth living" carroll.edu First lets get a few things clear: 1) I am not saying everyone should go to college. I am saying everyone can benefit from education to whatever level they want or can achieve. Regardless of what they do for a living. 2) All education from pre school to PHD should be free like in Denmark. So cost should be irrelevant. 3) Many people do not know what they are capable of educationally. When they find out they change. Most of the kids in the hard core ghettos have no realistic idea of their capabilities. But kids born in rich or academic families almost always go on to college. So why is it good for plutocrats and academic kids, and not good for the ghetto kids? And this country is getting more and more split along lines of who gets educated and who does not. And the educated are doing fine and are the bosses of the uneducated. There was very little unemployment among those with college education dn there is a perfect correlation between income and years of education. So where am I wrong? <<koan, I like you, and pretty much agree with most things you post since you are a liberal, but you are just wrong on this issue... not everyone can afford to go to college and it's not even in the best interest of every single person to go to college... it's highly over-rated in many instances... there's a very real shortage of skilled labor in this country that offer very well-paying jobs/careers... and if Steve Lokness is agreeing with you on this issue then that should be a huge warning flag that you are up the creek without a paddle :^)