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[Gyakuto104]

It’s so tough on people going to college today. My heart goes out to them.

I went to college in the seventies at UMass, Boston.
My tuition was two hundred, fifty dollars a semester. Heck, we paid that off by playing nine ball over a weekend.

I can’t imagine what college costs are these days. It just ain’t right.

Yes indeed and I sincerely believe higher education should be near as damn free and funded by government and those company’s who demand their work force has them.

I think young people do degrees for the wrong reasons due to hype from the institutions themselves. They no longer guarantee a better/good job and thus increased earning potential and they don’t really teach many transferable skills. If you want to be a medical doctor, dentist, optometrist, scientist, then you do need a degree and beyond but a degree in business management won’t necessarily make you a good manager and get you a high powered job in Burger King beyond flipping burgers.

Undertake an apprenticeship or start climbing the corporate ladder from the bottom and you’ll find your level based upon your attributes.

 

[Buka20]

Yes indeed and I sincerely believe higher education should be near as damn free and funded by government and those company’s who demand their work force has them.

I think young people do degrees for the wrong reasons due to hype from the institutions themselves. They no longer guarantee a better/good job and thus increased earning potential and they don’t really teach many transferable skills. If you want to be a medical doctor, dentist, optometrist, scientist, then you do need a degree and beyond but a degree in business management won’t necessarily make you a good manager and get you a high powered job in Burger King beyond flipping burgers.

Undertake an apprenticeship or start climbing the corporate ladder from the bottom and you’ll find your level based upon your attributes.

The idea that that students don’t have the opportunity to learn those things that will help their subsequent students to learn and thrive

 

[Gyakuto104]

The idea that that students don’t have the opportunity to learn those things that will help their subsequent students to learn and thrive

I think University as a means of acquiring knowledge is overrated. For example, I think I have a degree-level knowledge of the Apollo moon landing methods but I acquired that in my own time and at my own expense whilst contributing to society via my day job. That is my interest and I had no intention to work and contribute to NASA! Knowledge for knowledge’s sake.

If you love English literature/History/Poetry etc then consider studying it yourself and not lining the pockets of an institution.

 

[HighKick]

I think University as a means of acquiring knowledge is overrated. For example, I think I have a degree-level knowledge of the Apollo moon landing methods but I acquired that in my own time and at my own expense whilst contributing to society via my day job. That is my interest and I had no intention to work and contribute to NASA! Knowledge for knowledge’s sake.

If you love English literature/History/Poetry etc then consider studying it yourself and not lining the pockets of an institution.

I agree in-large. But there is a time and place for guided education. If for no other reason than efficiency. I can't imagine the research hours spent by people when all they had to do was ask the right person(s).

Let's use this website as a test bed. I cannot count the times I have seen people realize their 'self-taught' approach to training had led them down the wrong road.

Just because it is a book (or online) does not make it correct or of any value to your quest for education.
Knowledge for knowledges sake is okay I suppose if it contributes in some way, else it is just cannon fodder.

 

[Xue Sheng98]

It's worse than that, in my opinion it's dangerous. Democracy requires an informed populace to function effectively, and a university education if it teaches nothing else should teach you how to learn. We need people with critical thinking skills if we are to remain a stable, prosperous democratic society. It's my opinion that everybody should have the opportunity.

There are some states in the US that allow citizens of that state to go to state colleges for free. But not many

 

[Steve]

There are a lot of big problems when it comes to education at all levels. One issue regarding higher education is the pendulum effect at work here. For a time, there was an over-emphasis on the high school to university pipeline. After high school, it was basically accepted that you needed to get a Bachelor's degree (at least) to be "successful". That is complete bunk, of course and a lot of kids with no particular interest or aptitude spent a bunch of money on an education they neither needed nor particularly wanted.

Over the past decade or so, there's been a concerted efforts to devalue higher education and over emphasize "the trades." We still don't have it right. Instead of placing subjective value on one path or another, I think they're all just options.

And with the polarization in all things going on right now, there isa lot of distrust on all sides.

Tangentially, college athletics and in particular football and basketball, are a real issue too.

All that aside, I encourage everyone to pour one out for President Carter today on his official day of mourning.

 

[Gyakuto104]

I realised this morning, my life is governed by the act of counting up to ten. When I’m at the gym, I count ten reps for seven sets for each exercise (about 15). When I start to meditate, I count my breaths up to ten, switching to Japanese or the Japanese names of the fingers to stop it becoming mindless (it’s not natural to use Japanese). When I hold my stretches I count to ten, stretch a bit further and count to ten again a total of three times. Ten, 10, tō, kōyubi, ju, jugatsu, dix, zheng….it’s everywhere…

 

[Xue Sheng98]

This might be the first time i have gone on vacation this time of year and NOT got a foot of snow at my house so i have to shovel my way in. Got snow, but only a couple inches

 

[Wing Woo Gar38]

I realised this morning, my life is governed by the act of counting up to ten. When I’m at the gym, I count ten reps for seven sets for each exercise (about 15). When I start to meditate, I count my breaths up to ten, switching to Japanese or the Japanese names of the fingers to stop it becoming mindless (it’s not natural to use Japanese). When I hold my stretches I count to ten, stretch a bit further and count to ten again a total of three times. Ten, 10, tō, kōyubi, ju, jugatsu, dix, zheng….it’s everywhere…

I use 9.

 

[Wing Woo Gar38]

I agree in-large. But there is a time and place for guided education. If for no other reason than efficiency. I can't imagine the research hours spent by people when all they had to do was ask the right person(s).

Let's use this website as a test bed. I cannot count the times I have seen people realize their 'self-taught' approach to training had led them down the wrong road.

Just because it is a book (or online) does not make it correct or of any value to your quest for education.
Knowledge for knowledges sake is okay I suppose if it contributes in some way, else it is just cannon fodder.

Boy howdy!

 

[Gyakuto104]

I use 9.

My other half is from Burma/Myanmar. It’s military dictator, illegally in charge of the country, was told by his clairvoyant () that nine was his lucky number. So he changed everything to base nine. Nine, and it’s multiples, were used in all coinage and bank notes; 9, 18, 72 etc etc. It made financial transactions so confusing and prone to mistakes that it crashed the economy and they had to change it all back to base ten after a year or so. Those coins and notes are collectors items now and that foolish halfwit is still the illegal military dictator of Burma/Myanmar.

 

[Wing Woo Gar38]

My other half is from Burma/Myanmar. It’s military dictator, illegally in charge of the country, was told by his clairvoyant () that nine was his lucky number. So he changed everything to base nine. Nine, and it’s multiples, were used in all coinage and bank notes; 9, 18, 72 etc etc. It made financial transactions so confusing and prone to mistakes that it crashed the economy and they had to change it all back to base ten after a year or so. Those coins and notes are collectors items now and that foolish halfwit is still the illegal military dictator of Burma/Myanmar.

I get the compliment, thank you!

 

[Wing Woo Gar38]

If you feel some need to suffer and be humiliated, try steelhead fishing in the pacific north coast rivers. I’m a junkie for this stuff this time of year!

 

[Buka20]

This might be the first time i have gone on vacation this time of year and NOT got a foot of snow at my house so i have to shovel my way in. Got snow, but only a couple inches

We have snow on the mountain in my back yard. But I ain’t going up there this time, too cold. Yeah, I’m a pussy.

 

[Xue Sheng98]

We have snow on the mountain in my back yard. But I ain’t going up there this time, too cold. Yeah, I’m a pussy.

When we landed in South Carolina, the pilot announced it was freezing and 40…. He obviously did not fly out of Albany that morning where it was 15

 

[jks919975]

This might be the first time i have gone on vacation this time of year and NOT got a foot of snow at my house so i have to shovel my way in. Got snow, but only a couple inches

I got about a foot or so you can have...

 

[Xue Sheng98]

I got about a foot or so you can have...

Monday, not tomorrow… i kind of like the idea of being able to just drive into my garage when i get home… but send it Monday, that would be fine

 

[jks919975]

Monday, not tomorrow… i kind of like the idea of being able to just drive into my garage when i get home… but send it Monday, that would be fine

I'll do my best... I'm not sure if it'll handle shipping well, though...

 

[Buka20]

If you feel some need to suffer and be humiliated, try steelhead fishing in the pacific north coast rivers. I’m a junkie for this stuff this time of year!

I used to go fishing, mostly deep sea fishing, but not a lot, maybe a dozen times.

But one time we went fishing on the shore of the Cape Cod Canal with our then Karate instructor. Four hours, caught nothing, froze my gonads off. It was really cold. We were fishing for Blue Fish, apparently they were thick in that area at that time of year.

They went again the following Saturday. I said
“No way, count me out.”

Three carloads of my fellow students pulled up to my house when they came back, their car trunks filled with blue fish. And I mean filled.

All my neighbors had fish for the next few days.

The students said it was nuts, just throw your line in the water and bang, something takes your bait. I wish I had gone, I would have liked to have experienced that.

Blues are a little oily for me, but it was still good eating.

 

[Wing Woo Gar38]

We have snow on the mountain in my back yard. But I ain’t going up there this time, too cold. Yeah, I’m a pussy.

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