STOCK MARKET WATCH - Thursday, 26 January 2012

[Demeter]

20. PERSONAL COMMENTARY

What this psychologist has to say has some value, if one intends to be a good worker-bee and go along to get along, and a job exists at the end of the line.

If one has TALENT, however, it is absolutely worthless. If one wishes to succeed in Art, or Research, or Higher Science or any field where one needs the mentoring and connections to qualify in the first place and advance in the second...one needs to get into the elite school. Otherwise, one will never be considered top drawer, because one will never have been trained to the highest standard. It may be possible to do the first 2-4 years cheaply, but then one will need an expensive advanced degree.

FURTHERMORE, if one wishes to associate with top people, or even marry such a one, it isn't going to happen at a public university. And by top people, I don't mean George W. Bush. (Unless that is what you wish.) Nor do I mean future tentacles of the Vampire Squid. I mean International Stars and Nobel Prize Winners.