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introverts who think their minds will lift boulders someday
University will then point to those few people as justification of success, while omitting the fact that this is an exception in a very specific field...
Yes, but if you recall from the 80s and 90s, a lot of those ppl were unemployed (a.k.a the Oil Patch bust which extended into process chemistry) and had to switch fields into IT, finance, or health care. So the lesson here is that don't do something just to make Uncle DuPont a mint, do it for yourself.
Many of the most successful ones are incapable of human interaction as in borderline autistic, so they are not well adapted to life outside lab.
Many of the most successful ones are incapable of human interaction as in borderline autistic, so they are not well adapted to life outside lab.
I went, but never understood college as a whole. Trade schools and as much as I hate them, unions have the right approach with training. I want my doctor learning about what he needs to do and not blowing 1/2 their undergrad credit hours on stuff that has nothing to do with the medical field. Just like I don't expect my HVAC repairman to know Roman history.
Not a Musk brown noser, but he is right. System needs an overhaul.
Universities should be forced to report out if their graduates are getting jobs in the fields of their study.
socal2 saysUniversities should be forced to report out if their graduates are getting jobs in the fields of their study.
Betsy DeVos (sp?) who is ORANGEMANBAD education secretary recently put some data for schools online: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov. I note that before ORANGEMAN BAD this data was not easily available.
"You don't need college to learn stuff," Musk said at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington on Monday. "Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free. It is not a question of learning."
Colleges do have a value, Musk acknowledged, as proving grounds for intellectual grit and determination to test whether somebody can "work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments ... and kind of soldier through and get it done."
At the same time, it's probably worthwhile "to hang around with a bunch of people your own age for a while, instead of going right into the workforce," Musk said. "So I think colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores, but they're not for learning."
The billionaire, who gradated from the University of Pennsylvania, said that Tesla recruiting information and job postings do not prioritize a college degree as a prerequisite "because that's absurd," he said.
"But there is," he explained, "a requirement of evidence of exceptional ability. If you try to do something exceptional, it must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don't consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability. In fact, ideally, you dropped out and did something."
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/elon-musk-says-graduating-college-not-needed-theyre-not-learning