believe that college is a waste of everyone's efforts. I, on the other hand, believe that not

to be true. In today's world you need to have a decent college education to really get

somewhere in our society. Sure, Einstein never past a math class, but that doesn't mean

that people that do go to college are just wasting their time and money. In order to get

even a decent blue collar job today you will need at least some training in a higher

education place or in a vocational/tech. school, but you still have to pay for those. No

matter how one looks at it, a higher form of learning is necessary. What if i tell you that

you'd even get paid better when you graduate than you would if you never went at all?

Bird says, "The premise- which I no longer accept- that college is the best place

for all high school graduates grew out of a noble ideal." Yes, when America has no use

for high school graduates they tell us to go to college. And it is here where we learn to

"make something of ourselves". But that doesn't mean that we don't learn anything or

Also, Staples believes that colleges are "addicted to counterfeit excellence,

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