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   Knightman said, almost 2 years ago

   And all those Hangovers!
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   gmartin997 said, almost 2 years ago

   That proves there’s more ways to study than pouring over countless books, but it doesn’t improve memory retention span.
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   treblemaker said, almost 2 years ago

   Pouring over books is a bad idea. It wastes the beer and ruins the books.
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   vanpelt said, almost 2 years ago

   It scares me to know there are kids in real life who think like Zipper — with no intention of training their actual brains and memories, assuming they’ll always have an electronic assistant handy. How do they think all that information got there?
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   misschili said, almost 2 years ago

   @vanpelt

   Er, um, they don’t think!
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   pschearer said, almost 2 years ago

   With a country full of unemployed liberal arts grads, it is time to reconsider whether everyone “needs” a college degree. I’m a big believer in a well-rounded education, but it is something a young person has a lifetime to acquire AFTER learning to support him- or herself. The truth of today’s cartoon is not that one doesn’t need to learn anything anymore but that there are more efficient ways of doing it today. Watch for a collapse of the higher-education bubble over the next few years.
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   MajArkay said, almost 2 years ago

   Job security lies in things like plumbing, air conditioning/heating, auto mechanics, etc. They don’t require college degrees, the pay is pretty good, and my plumber sure earned his last month…
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   zenguy said, almost 2 years ago

   @MajArkay

   MajArkay is right. If you can actually DO something USEFUL you can earn a good living, with some security.
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   Sandfan said, almost 2 years ago

   I always felt that the purpose of higher education was to teach you how to think. It seems that the purpose these days is to teach you what to think.
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    jnik23260 said, almost 2 years ago

    I’m always wondering why/how Zipper’s family keeps spending their money on his college tuition when it’s obviously being wasted. Can’t they find a better use for it?
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    andavall said, almost 2 years ago

    Last Saturday on Telegraph Ave, Berkley… a group of naked bicyclists road thru Telegraph… There was a group of parents and perspective students touring campus… A father after seeing the naked bicyclists turned to his daughter and said…
    “Your not going to Berkeley, your going to Bible college….”
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    Sheik Yerbouti said, almost 2 years ago

    @andavall

    ^ And at that Bible college, will they teach her the difference between “your” and “you’re”?
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    TexTech said, almost 2 years ago

    I wonder how many college degrees have been issue to people who don’t know the difference between pour & pore, your & you’re, their & there & they’re, hear & here, and more homonyms? Scary actually.
    @pschearer I agree that not everyone needs a college degree. And the reality is that not everyone is college material but many of them go (or get sent) anyway. I read recently that the higher education field may be near collaps with the recognition of this. Now if only some of the good trade schools did not charge as much as Harvard to become a plumber or electrician.
    @sandfan I was thinking the same thing as your first statement. The purpose of college is not to stuff your head with facts but learn how to think. Learn how to take those facts and turn them into useful information on which to act. I do tend to disagree with your second statement, however.
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    SeaFox10 said, almost 2 years ago

    @Sheik Yerbouti

    LOL!
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    palin drome said, almost 2 years ago

    You go to college to learn what questions need to be asked. Zipper hasn’t a clue what Guy Fawkes tried to do (blow up Parliament), where magnesium is found, or why ethics should be divided into three parts. He’s just POURING meaningless information into his sieve-like brain, which lacks the active power to PORE over it and analyze it.
    @pschearer
    Your vocational argument against a college degree is refuted in today’s NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/sunday-review/26leonhardt.html?_r=1
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