Guru Scammers VS Education

Great share.

I personally graduated high school with one of the lowest GPA's, I was considered one of the people that would most likely never get anywhere in life. I dealt with one brother passing of cancer, and another committing suicide, which pushed my depression even further. I literally had no hopes or dreams.

But.

When I came online, things started to change dramatically for me.

I had never gone to college, never really had much experience online (other than games), and had never built a website before I started.

When I made my first $0.23, all of my friends thought I was stupid too. Heck even my family thought it was pretty dumb. They kept telling me to give up and do something with my life. To get a real job (I had just been laid off of a trucking company).

And to just be straight forward.

I've had single weeks' where I have made more money than most of people I want to school with made in an entire year.

I'm not filthy rich. Of course, that involves work. But I ignored everything I was ever taught and started thinking for myself. Education is great. It's a good starting point.

But.

I absolutely disagree with our educational system and how we are brainwashed into getting good grades so we can graduate and then get into a good college, which after we graduate will ensure us a great job, and we'll live happily ever after.

Pssh. Most people I know that are in college or have graduated have been screwed in every which way.

Why the hell are people paying SO MUCH MONEY for so little...

Ai. Anyways. Just my thoughts. Again I'm not rich. I spend almost all of my money testing new campaigns, new strategies, and new techniques so that I can learn more and more now.. oh and I go out to eat everyday ^^

Thanks for the share. I just wanted to share my thoughts on the matter, however I have much more, just not enough time in a day to say lol.

"Not many, Benny".

The ones who get jobs, I think, would mostly work their way up to that income-figure over 2 or maybe 3 years?

But like so many discussions here about education, it all comes down to whether you equate the importance of education with earning potential. I sense (from many earlier conversations) that in America that's perhaps a more common perspective than elsewhere in the world (perhaps partly because it typically costs more to go to college, over there?), but many people don't look at education that way.

The value of "a degree" is something totally different from the value of "education".

For sure, there's a rather small minority of super-successful people who didn't go to college whose names are habitually and disproportionately cited as "examples", but the reality is actually that in all the countries where so much research has been done on this question for so many decades, average graduate lifelong incomes are way higher than average non-graduate lifelong incomes.

In any case, "education" is what remains when all the stuff you learned has been long forgotten.

I needed a new brain by my early 20's. My academic abilities needed major improvement; a paradigm shift so to speak.

I joined the Navy for an overhauled brain reconditioning. Brainwashing? I don't know. The kick start worked anyway. Now I don't struggle to get D's. I Ace through every college class I take, and I am Phi Theta Kappa. It is a sense of accomplishment for me. By the way, Algebra is good for you. Of course, money pays for the education. Being able to apply the knowledge is what really matters...

I am 57, and I have said for years that I learned more of what was of use to me in my first year in the real world than I did in all my time at school

There are far more people saying they regret not getting an education that those saying they made the right choice, I think that fact alone proves a point.

I really like that one, Ken.




Not so much college, that I know of, but...
In mass education, many people don't realize that alot of teachers are working from script 'mills'. There is an entire industry that produces the itinerary that kids are taught nowadays.
More of an assembly line...

While it is true you can learn as much from "fools as from sages",

I will keep the presence of mind as to what fools I will learn from.


Finding a good teacher is akin to finding gold.

College is currently in a bubble right now. The cost of college keeps on going up even though the value of a college degree (increase in base salary compared to non-college graduates is going down).

Couple that with the fact that educating yourself is getting easier and easier with the internet (take a look at Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and Stanford's courses that are published for free online), college will be facing a correctional period sometime soon when people realize they aren't getting enough in value to warrant the incredibly steep pricetag.

Hehe. I found his commercial.

Interesting. , are those real?

Oh boy, that video is SO cheesy and cliche ridden, however, I bet it's been extremely effective.