Is College Worth the Investment?

[Virtual Bison]

Hi Everyone-I'm a new poster here...interesting blogs. All I can add is I went to a well thought and very large state university for my bachelor's degree. Their idea of teaching undergrads was herding them into a large auditorium with 100 of their classmates and the professor would lecture from the stage. Any labs were taught by TAs who were quite often hung over. It was a complete waste of time. I ended up going to a licensed but non-accredited school 25 years later in a field that I was really interested in. That investment has paid for itself at least 100-fold. It gave me a new career and opened all sorts of doors. And the tuition was a fraction of what an accredited university teaching me similar subjects is. For me, this type of education was a great choice.

Thanks Carrie.

I had the benefit of both educational experiences and have two degrees.

Accredited, and in my case State education has its own merits and so does the "non-traditional" route.

I guess there are a lot of people who knock unaccredited schools but I believe there is a lot of prejudice out there.

big brother and his cohort of lying politicking lefties may brag until the cow come home about how their rotten pseudo-socialist social alchemy post WWII mode will finally get the pariah to get raptured into mid air to finally meet P.T. Barnum, J.P. Getty and the Rotschild gang for the final judgment of one's financial sins and merits...it isn't that way and by far so.

PT Barnum was actually a brilliant showman.
I read a great deal about how back in the day there were great exhibitions and traveling shows.

You may not know this but Harry Houdini (whose real name was Weiss) was probibly the most intellegent promoter that ever lived. He actually had a fake who followed him and would demonstrate tricks that the public never saw. This poser had a phony name, something like Hindini or something else. Anyway Hindini would heckle Harry during his performances and invite the public to his shows. And there was this war between the two.

It actually turned out that this fake Houdini was Weiss's own brother and it was a gimmick to generate more interest in his shows.

I guess Houdini believed that any publicity is good publicity.

This may be why Charlie Sheen is now the hotest celebrity.