Educationally Speaking

 EDUCATIONALLY SPEAKING

Educationally speaking, few care.  Public and private education, meaning K-12, is not to educate, but to train.  Are you, as a graduate, prepared to enter the modern workplace; do you have computer skills, can you code, well if you must, there are universities for business, engineering, computerization, medicine, law, accounting.  But once again, for purposes of usefulness, for joining the modern economy, earning a living, buying a big house and expensive car - - things that matter.

There are some that don't care.  They are either not capable or really don't care.  Let's talk about those that really don't care.  The uncaring, as I will call them, aren't particularly interested in a big house and expensive car.  Certainly they are nice to have and being offered one, would not reject the offer.  However, normally speaking, the issue is what you have to do to get these things.  

As it is becoming understood by those who give it some thought, we achieve our economic status through forcing ourselves to achieve.  We are not forced to do so by anything other than ourselves.  This is how you gain status in our world, by achieving, by working, by being employed, by making money, by buying things, by presenting oneself as a success.

Let us just say, you know, for the fun of it, that a person wants to go to college to major in English, or history, or art, or music - - what then?  What good are you, what will you do with those kinds of degrees?  They are not worth much and you will be poor.  Nobody wants an English major or a history major, or even a sociology or anthropology major.  You can't earn a decent living with that type of learning.

What we need are people with business degrees, MBAs at a minimum.  They know what they are doing.  Corporate America is where it's at.  Lets not forget.  Marketing, now that is a degree that is worth something.  You can make a lot of money with a marketing degree.  How to sell stuff to people who don't need what they buy, but will buy it anyway because you, as a marketing major, have figured out how to sell stuff that is not needed to people who simply don't have what you are selling.  This is, actually, what our economy and hence our world is about - - continually buying stuff that you have been coaxed to want but don't need.

Have you ever thought why a person will spend a million dollars on a house when one for one hundred thousand will meet every need?  Marketing - - that's where it's at. Why buy a $100,000 house when you can buy a $1,000,000 house?  Nobody pays the slightest attention to a $100,000 house, and for good reason - - it's crappy, probably doesn't even have a yard.  So let's get with it - - work and earn, work and earn.

Richard E H Phelps II
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