Will Today's College Grads be Tomorrow's Politicians?

[Falvlun]

Unfortunately, I find the average bachelor degree to be essentially meaningless at this point. It has been greatly watered down by necessity of everyone having one in hopes to obtain a job that will pay the bills.

Masters' degrees are headed in the same direction.

Academic excellence, and "book smarts", is something I do value in politicians. It is acutely important in higher levels, in which the politican needs to be able to grasp many diverse concepts, to be articulate, and simply, not to make all Americans look like baffoons. Ability to succeed in school is one way to measure this. It is not the only important criteria, but one I will continue to look for.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

There's education and there's education. The Republican leadership may have a lot of business and law degrees, for example, but they're almost universally scientifically illiterate -- and have a pretty poor grasp of history as well, now that I think about it...

I find, regardless of one's arbitrary ideological biases, education is useless without intelligence, honesty, and wisdom. More education, or other types of education, don't fix this.

 

[Revoltingest]

Yep, I've always found a lot of wisdom in his humor. Probably one of the authors I've found who most coincides with my views.

Call it a wild guess.....you like Kurt Vonnegut too, eh?