Of course there are many examples of people succeeding without a high school education or higher education.
But is that more common than the person without that education who is working in a dead end job for minimal pay and just barely getting by with little hope of moving "up the ladder"?
I agree that a high school diploma is necessary....it is important to be able to read and write in order to function in society.
But the college stuff.....unless the education is specialized (ie medical school, radiology, law school, computer science, genetic engineering) it is largely worthless in comparison to the debt load that one assumes.
Several of the guys I know skipped college and learned practical skills (ie welding, roughnecking, truck driving), or opened up their own businesses, and have done better monetarily and are many times more marketable than many college grads.
Of course there are many examples of people succeeding without a high school education or higher education.
But is that more common than the person without that education who is working in a dead end job for minimal pay and just barely getting by with little hope of moving "up the ladder"?
I agree that a high school diploma is necessary....it is important to be able to read and write in order to function in society.
But the college stuff.....unless the education is specialized (ie medical school, radiology, law school, computer science, genetic engineering) it is largely worthless in comparison to the debt load that one assumes.
Several of the guys I know skipped college and learned practical skills (ie welding, roughnecking, truck driving), or opened up their own businesses, and have done better monetarily and are many times more marketable than many college grads.
I agree that a high school diploma is necessary....it is important to be able to read and write in order to function in society.
But the college stuff.....unless the education is specialized (ie medical school, radiology, law school, computer science, genetic engineering) it is largely worthless in comparison to the debt load that one assumes.
Several of the guys I know skipped college and learned practical skills (ie welding, roughnecking, truck driving), or opened up their own businesses, and have done better monetarily and are many times more marketable than many college grads.
Which is why I said that of course there are examples. I obviously do not have any hard data to back up these statements but I would guess that for each of the successful ones there are many more that struggling / barely getting by.
I agree that a high school diploma is necessary....it is important to be able to read and write in order to function in society.
But the college stuff.....unless the education is specialized (ie medical school, radiology, law school, computer science, genetic engineering) it is largely worthless in comparison to the debt load that one assumes.
Several of the guys I know skipped college and learned practical skills (ie welding, roughnecking, truck driving), or opened up their own businesses, and have done better monetarily and are many times more marketable than many college grads.
Which is why I said that of course there are examples. I obviously do not have any hard data to back up these statements but I would guess that for each of the successful ones there are many more that struggling / barely getting by.
I agree that a high school diploma is necessary....it is important to be able to read and write in order to function in society.
But the college stuff.....unless the education is specialized (ie medical school, radiology, law school, computer science, genetic engineering) it is largely worthless in comparison to the debt load that one assumes.
Several of the guys I know skipped college and learned practical skills (ie welding, roughnecking, truck driving), or opened up their own businesses, and have done better monetarily and are many times more marketable than many college grads.
i wouldn't be so quick to take law school out of the worthless category given the cost.
I agree that a high school diploma is necessary....it is important to be able to read and write in order to function in society.
But the college stuff.....unless the education is specialized (ie medical school, radiology, law school, computer science, genetic engineering) it is largely worthless in comparison to the debt load that one assumes.
Several of the guys I know skipped college and learned practical skills (ie welding, roughnecking, truck driving), or opened up their own businesses, and have done better monetarily and are many times more marketable than many college grads.
i wouldn't be so quick to take law school out of the worthless category given the cost.
Goose the midwest (Wyoming, Minnesota, Montanta, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota) is very ag based too and they are all in the top 15. I don't think that is the reason for the South being so low.
Goose the midwest (Wyoming, Minnesota, Montanta, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota) is very ag based too and they are all in the top 15. I don't think that is the reason for the South being so low.
Goose the midwest (Wyoming, Minnesota, Montanta, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota) is very ag based too and they are all in the top 15. I don't think that is the reason for the South being so low.
Without writing a novel, I'll try to explain :
1) Over the past 50 years, residential growth in the South has exceeded that in other parts of the country by ten-fold. This opened up an enormous demand for skilled trades and unskilled labor, rendering a college degree useless.
2) The South has become the mainstay tourist destination of the country. Jobs in the tourism/hospitality/retail sector are not asking for college degrees, but more likely, "can you work weekends?"
3) The South has an abundance of natural resources such as oil,gas,commercial fisheries, agriculture, aquaculture, etc. that present job opportunities for those without high school or college educations.
In general, the resources and service driven industries of the region actually help the inevitable uneducated percentage who are willing to help themselves rather than rely on government subsidies to survive.
Goose the midwest (Wyoming, Minnesota, Montanta, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota) is very ag based too and they are all in the top 15. I don't think that is the reason for the South being so low.
Without writing a novel, I'll try to explain :
1) Over the past 50 years, residential growth in the South has exceeded that in other parts of the country by ten-fold. This opened up an enormous demand for skilled trades and unskilled labor, rendering a college degree useless.
2) The South has become the mainstay tourist destination of the country. Jobs in the tourism/hospitality/retail sector are not asking for college degrees, but more likely, "can you work weekends?"
3) The South has an abundance of natural resources such as oil,gas,commercial fisheries, agriculture, aquaculture, etc. that present job opportunities for those without high school or college educations.
In general, the resources and service driven industries of the region actually help the inevitable uneducated percentage who are willing to help themselves rather than rely on government subsidies to survive.
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