Re: the irrationality of the real world

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Being educated, often times, it does not mean much, unless
the education teaches a skill that is in demand. Degrees
also, mean very little, for most colleges, even ones held in
good esteem, are not much more than diploma mills. I have a
friend, who is well educated. He is employed as a carpet
salesman, having not found employment elsewhere. His pay is
not very good. In his house lives his wife, with a business
degree from a prestigous private college. She has no job,
yet still looks for one. In this same household lives the
wife's brother, who recently graduated with an engineering
degree. He is unemployed, with no prospects. There is a
great fallacy in America today, and that is that education
is marketable, in itself. This is incorrect, for many have
seen that education must be coupled with a skill, whether it
be working good with people, great communication ability, or
something else. It also helps greatly to know someone
important, and to have good contacts. Every year, many
students from well off families, graduate from college with
no prospects. Use your 4 years in college to work both
inside of school and outside. Meet people, learn skills,
travel to other places and learn and meet people. Students
dont do this and they set themselves up for failure.

In sum, education in itself does not mean anything. It must
be coupled with experience, contacts, skills, and more.

On 4/11/06, L wrote:
> isn't it peculiar that highly intelligent, motivated and
> hardworking people experience so much difficulty in the
> real world? with all that education and various degrees,
> many are poor and miserable, or in any event, don't do
> much better financially than others who are less
> intelligent and less educated. how do you explain this
> phenomenon?
>
> part of the reason, i think, is that we live in a world
> run by and for the vast majority who are dumb. the dumb
> people must be put to work to maintain egalitarin
> democracy, so it's difficult to make room for more
> intelligent people. what's your explanation?