Society is very split, everywhere I go I am surrounded by several adults who constantly tell me “stay in school”. Every child is pressured to remain in school and pass all of their classes. This pressure starts from a very young age when we got our first glimpse of education. Children are constantly told that “if you stay in school, you will become successful”. However, when asking the question, is staying in school (through college) really worth it? An article by knowledge- -@wharton suggests that college may not have such high pay offs as one may expect.
Many of those at the top of our society (the rich) either have gone to college and said their degree was useless, or they skipped college altogether. We see this common ideology of how …show more content…
Now yes, in some circumstances college is great, if I was to be a doctor I would then need college, but in many circumstances college doesn't teach you the more practical and real life lessons you would learn if you had a job.
Trial and error is actually the highest level of education one may obtain. If you are trying to close a pocket knife and you grab it from the blade, you will realize it is sharp and you won't touch the blade again, so the next time you go to close the knife, you will know not to close the knife by touching the blade. Same thing with jobs in the real world, see college forces you to focus on one major but what if you have a hidden talent somewhere else and you don't know about it. If you never try something new then you will never know if you are good at it or not. Let's say you are focused on a science major …show more content…
If you were to not go to college, you need to be strong. You need to be strong enough to never back down. It's basically survival of the fittest, and if you believe you are the most fit then you will be successful. Think of Steve Jobs who started Apple in his garage with a friend, he believed in what he was creating and now look, Apple is one of the most successful and highly recognized companies in the world. Look, college will teach you how many molecules are in an atom or what not, but will they teach you what you need to know to successfully start up a company? Do you think these professors know the tricks of the trade as well as these self made millionaires do? If you say yes, then you probably want to go to college to get a grip on things because professors go by a book. These books forget little details like how to close a deal or make a sale with an uptight, stingy person. In the movie the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort (a corrupt, but nevertheless self made millionaire) told his friends (while having dinner with them) that a friend of his, who was also having dinner with them, could sell anything. Jordan's friends, in disbelief, watch as this salesman grabs a pen and says “write your name down on a napkin” to Jordan. Jordan replies, “I don't have a pen”. He responds, “exactly, supply and demand”. Jordan explains that he creates urgency for the customer to need a pen in order to write his name down. This all ties in with the
Many of those at the top of our society (the rich) either have gone to college and said their degree was useless, or they skipped college altogether. We see this common ideology of how …show more content…
Now yes, in some circumstances college is great, if I was to be a doctor I would then need college, but in many circumstances college doesn't teach you the more practical and real life lessons you would learn if you had a job.
Trial and error is actually the highest level of education one may obtain. If you are trying to close a pocket knife and you grab it from the blade, you will realize it is sharp and you won't touch the blade again, so the next time you go to close the knife, you will know not to close the knife by touching the blade. Same thing with jobs in the real world, see college forces you to focus on one major but what if you have a hidden talent somewhere else and you don't know about it. If you never try something new then you will never know if you are good at it or not. Let's say you are focused on a science major …show more content…
If you were to not go to college, you need to be strong. You need to be strong enough to never back down. It's basically survival of the fittest, and if you believe you are the most fit then you will be successful. Think of Steve Jobs who started Apple in his garage with a friend, he believed in what he was creating and now look, Apple is one of the most successful and highly recognized companies in the world. Look, college will teach you how many molecules are in an atom or what not, but will they teach you what you need to know to successfully start up a company? Do you think these professors know the tricks of the trade as well as these self made millionaires do? If you say yes, then you probably want to go to college to get a grip on things because professors go by a book. These books forget little details like how to close a deal or make a sale with an uptight, stingy person. In the movie the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort (a corrupt, but nevertheless self made millionaire) told his friends (while having dinner with them) that a friend of his, who was also having dinner with them, could sell anything. Jordan's friends, in disbelief, watch as this salesman grabs a pen and says “write your name down on a napkin” to Jordan. Jordan replies, “I don't have a pen”. He responds, “exactly, supply and demand”. Jordan explains that he creates urgency for the customer to need a pen in order to write his name down. This all ties in with the