Well, Dad’s advice was useless. As others have pointed out, a college degree, even if not used in one’s profession, is valuable, in that one met people outside one’s immediate family, interacted with them and their ideas, which were probably different from the ones you grew up with, probably read a fair number of books, probably learned to research, possibly learned to express a reasoned argument in written form, and were diligent, something not normally associated with the American teenager. Plus, you learned a lot of things that you would not have learned sitting around and watching TV.So, to answer the question in the comic, I’d have to say that Dad’s advice was more useless.
Well, Dad’s advice was useless. As others have pointed out, a college degree, even if not used in one’s profession, is valuable, in that one met people outside one’s immediate family, interacted with them and their ideas, which were probably different from the ones you grew up with, probably read a fair number of books, probably learned to research, possibly learned to express a reasoned argument in written form, and were diligent, something not normally associated with the American teenager. Plus, you learned a lot of things that you would not have learned sitting around and watching TV.So, to answer the question in the comic, I’d have to say that Dad’s advice was more useless.