The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59364 Message #947148
Posted By: NicoleC
06-May-03 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Taking Back the US from Neo-cons
Subject: RE: BS: Taking Back the US from Neo-cons
I think that formal education doesn't necessarily inmprove one's ability to make rational choices, but it does increase the chances one might get there. The sheer number of spoiled rich kids at USC who failed to even attempt to learn anything in college besides how to chug the most beer forever soured any faith I might have in the collegiate system as a pancea.
Nonetheless, I know many smart people who never had the opportunity to go to college, but that didn't stop them from educating themselves. Setting up arbitrary judgements on one's "education" based on a flawed system that costs huge amounts to allow 19 year old to get drunk at frat parties seems to be ludicrous.