I would wager a bet that <a href=”http://stupidessays.googlepages.com/” target=”_blank”>these folks</a> are pretty successful nowadays. Yes, school is dumb. I have learned more being out of school and in the workplace for four years (holy crap! I’m old) than I learned being in it for… Many more…<br/><br/>Unfortunately, we live in a society where a piece of paper gets you <a href=”http://www.thestate.com/business/story/465214.html” target=”_blank”>75% more money</a>. I’m certainly very grateful for the opportunities I was afforded and am thankful of my parents, but my question is WHY and WHEN did we get to operating like this? I know back in the day (long, long ago) there was real value to a degree. Nowadays? With the Internet, anyone is able to make something of themselves without homework or essays, yet <a href=”http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/January/20080108191859zjsredna4.940432e-02.html” target=”_blank”>enrollment is way up</a>.<br/><br/>What can change? Will anything change? How can we make that change? This feels kind of like an empty rant, but it’s something that bugs me… What do you think?<br/><br/>On second thought, maybe there ARE people who need the education? Business folk come to mind. None of them had any of the requisite skills when they left high school (or any idea what they wanted to do; “business” is a great fallback)… Folks in more “skilled” professions (computers, bicycle repair, whatever) did. Could this be a result of our economy over the past few decades? So much money, people don’t know what to do with it, everybody wants to be some sort of contractor or Excel monkey to get their easy piece of the pie?<br/><br/>Talk about going off on a tangent… This post was fun, I should do some like these more often [at great risk of pissing folks off]. Please take it with a grain of salt; I’m not hating on anyone in particular, just our current society as a whole.<br/>