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Bonhomme Richard

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9. Think that through for a moment.

Thu May 23, 2013, 10:19 AM

May 2013

First, who decides what is a useless degree? The uneducated?
Second, is the value of education only defined by how much money you can make?
Third, if there are too many applicants for a particular field in 2013 and others are discouraged from going into that field then won't that create a shortage of applicants in 2020?
Fourth, maybe that student in the "useless" field is smart enough to make that field no longer useless or advance it to something else. Isn't that the point of education?

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