a College Degree isn’t That Important
Of course, you need a degree to become a doctor, lawyer, professor, or serve one of the sciences, and personnel managers of the world love to see B.A., M.A. or even Ph.D. on your job application, but those degrees don’t necessarily get you even the beginner’s job you want.
Go to college to get an education, to learn how to think, to grow up, but you have to work in a job to learn anything and move to a better one. Your college degree won’t even make you a whiz in your first job. You think you’re too good for them? Hah, they think—rightly—the job is probably too good for you! What can you really do for a company until you’ve had a chance to work there? Some of us didn’t go to college at all . . . me, for one. Robin Duke, wife of U.S. Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke, and herself national cochairman of the Population Crisis Committee, consultant on population to the United Nations, member of four boards of directors of giant corporations, president of the National Abortion Rights Action League—whew!—didn’t attend college. Margaret Thatcher, first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain, who did, says “self-education counts for much more than the education you receive at school.”
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