The Unorthodox Success Strategies of Millionaires

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One thing that saddens me is that this article like so many protrays a college education only in terms of job training.
The earliest colleges were suppose to create well rounded individuls who's lives were improved in ways beyond what salary they obtain.
If college is to be no more than job training like an auto mechanics school, then perhaps we can just let employers give job training skills and do away with universities altogether. Except for the sports programs which are highly popular.

Sscaler of IA 9:22AM November 02, 2011

The Ed Biz has been so drastically oversold to people in the decades since the productive US workforce was systematically crushed and those jobs offshored.
I worked in the Ed Biz all my career and was constantly advising young people who didn't want to be in college, but were forced there by various family or cultural viewpoints.
I always said that in all of life we should follow our highest motivations. The hardest thing to witness was the young people with energy and dedication to the vision of a business, but their families wouldn't support them in that, demanding instead they take a business degree. This is how our entrepreneurial class in the US was emptied out.

Fizbin of WA 10:09PM October 23, 2011

I somewhat agree with this...that college does not teach everything and that not ALL kids should go to college...I have 2 degrees but they were pretty necessary for the science field I entered, however, 2 of my sons decided to skip school and they are able to support themselves fine...why? Because they chose work that cannot be outsourced and they don't have to worry about HUGE student loan debt and the payments that go with them...instead, they have lower stress and enjoy life....also, my brother and uncle both skipped college, started their own businesses and have done remarkably well...I would like to see the math of someone graduating high school and taking on an average salary, NOT paying student loans and not missing out on those 4 years of work compared to a college graduate who pays the interest on a loan and missed out on the paychecks...then lets compare net worth....also, I know plenty of college grads who are now making minimum wage, living off mommy and daddy and expect the perfect job to find them...these kids should have been told that they had to complete classes at a local cc, saving money on tuition and possibly preventing defaulting on a jumbo student loan and this would saved all of us a lot of money for these kids to 'find' themselves....but instead mommy and daddy told their precious offspring that they were special and had to go to college to major in something irrelevant which probably ended up being beer chugging or socializing 101

college grad in the east of VA 12:23PM October 21, 2011