Does College = Success?
Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of The Daily Wire, doesn’t have a college degree. Neither do Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, or a host of other innovators who have shaped our contemporary world. Which begs an important question: Is a college degree really necessary for success?
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Maybe the dumbest thing you can do is to go to the place that’s supposed to make you smart. That would be…college.
Now, perhaps I’m biased. I don’t have a college degree—although I employ a lot of people who do, and from some of the most prestigious universities in the country.
I made a conscious choice. I had clear career ambitions and I didn’t see how a college degree was going to get me there. In retrospect, I’m confident I made the right decision.
I’m the co-founder and co-CEO of a company called The Daily Wire. We publish news and commentary from a conservative point of view. We have well over 100 employees and an audience which numbers in the millions every single day.
Now, I don’t have a problem if you go to college. It’s a free country. Do what you want. But the idea that somehow college is the great pathway to success and fulfillment—that I don’t buy.
The left takes a different view. They are obsessed with higher education. To them, it’s a human right. And they want it to be free—which just means paid for by people like me—for anyone who’s eighteen and can breathe.
That makes perfect sense from their point of view. One, the idea is a big winner among young people, a critical voting bloc. Who doesn’t want something for nothing—especially something that costs more than a Ferrari?
And two, colleges exist to do one thing: create conformity of thought. And since college professors and administrators overwhelmingly lean left, it’s a pretty good bet most of their students will as well.
But I’m being unfair, you say.
After all, we live in a knowledge-based world. And America isn’t making the grade. Don’t you know we rank 13th in the world in reading, 18th in science literacy, and a pitiful 37th in math? To which I say, “so what?”
It wasn’t Singapore that split the atom, or Estonia that mapped the human genome. America is #1 in Nobel Prizes awarded, #1 in scientific citations issued, #1 in popular entertainment, and #1 in technological advancement.
In short, America creates almost everything. Even what other countries manufacture was probably invented by an American. Which is why we’re also the #1 economy in the world—by far.
And who made this possible?
Well, here are the names of just a few of the individuals who pretty much invented the modern world: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison.
None of them has a college degree.
Many of the CEOs who run the companies they created do have college degrees. But the founders do not. What they do have are things colleges can’t teach you: curiosity, ambition, and a willingness to fail. Those qualities almost guarantee success. A college diploma doesn’t.
Want to build an airplane? Engineers educated in aerodynamics are handy to have on your team. Want to invent the airplane? Well, you’re better off finding a couple of restless bicycle repairmen. That’s what the Wright brothers were.
It’s not that colleges aren’t teaching; it’s that too often they’re teaching the wrong things. Or they’re teaching right things the wrong way.
Tech-entrepreneur David Gelernter says, “The thing I don’t look for in a developer is a degree in computer science…” Quite a statement from a man who teaches computer science at Yale.
Tech billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, actually pays people not to go college.
Thiel and Gelernter understand that colleges are factories, and like all factories, they want to produce a consistent product. That means producing people who all think alike.
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My answer is depends on where and what you do. The US and Canada are out as you'll spend more to top up your bachelor's degree with a master's.
UK is a 3-year degree program, and general education in uni is not a requirement to graduate. For those sitting A-levels, it's good. But for those in the US, you need to take AP classes, but it's much easier than A-levels. If you want to go into medicine, law, finance/economics, engineering, or architecture and want a good-paying job, only Oxbridge or the London-based Russel group unis (basically the UK equivalent of the Ivy League), and possibly Bath. PPE (philosophy, politics, and economics) is only good at Oxford.
Moral of the story:
If you want to go to uni, do it in the UK, and then only Oxbridge or the London-based Russel Group unis. Even then, only for medicine, law, finance/economics, engineering, or architecture. If good pay isn't too much of a concern and you're a UK resident, you can just do an apprenticeship, and earn a degree AND a salary simultaneously. Otherwise, go to a trade school.
I am never going to college and I never will, but I study stock market, forex market, real sector business trade and the most important thing : how to manage my personal Financial Statement and my Cash Flow
Education and intelligence are two entirely different things, and since the fed dept of education was created there have been increasingly higher number of educated idiots in society.
Once you graduate, you realize that certain conversations are worth more than all of your college classes combined. Being in the company of certain people and learning from them can have a greater effect on your life than memorizing facts enough to pass a test.
I wouldn't say degrees are totally useless but education still has a long way to go from hypotheticals to practical real-life skills that can actually make you successful.
gates zuckerberg ect are cutouts. they did not have humble beginnings and they didnt get their start because they were smart. their families were rich and gates stole what didnt belong to him. his grandaddy was on the fed reserve board
More Prager U lies. Dell tool the high school equivalency exam at age 8. He was a genius. He went to Texas U, got rich at 19 and dropped out.
Jobs skipped multiple grades and was hired by Hewlett Packard at 13. He went to Reed college buy was bored cuz he was a genius too.
Zuckerberg went to college but dropped out after creating FB to communicate with other people at the school.
And Gates, who went to two years of Harvard, I thought conservatives hated him for being part of the Deep State??
STEM? Best software developer I've ever worked with was blind and had a degree in music
Fix Yourself (Personal Responsibility):
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-Get to college on time.
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I have a message for confused human beings around the world of every generation especially the younger generation coming from a young man myself born in 1998. I believe the younger generation needs to fix themselves rather than trying to fix other people in this world because in my honest opinion you cannot fix people it is up to people to fix themselves period.
even though I don't like trigger you and I don't like the daily wire I can agree with this because I'm a truck driver with the BA degree and college only got me into debt.
Math matters. If your degree does not guarantee you a job that can pay your loans off within ~5 years — that's usually bad math.
The parachute was invented before the plane before as much of a established use was more clearly established. Think of if your looking at a parachute like invention right now!?🎯
You are a very silly man with silly opinions.
I’m still in school, and our guidance counselor is always telling us to go to college and take AP classes. She means well, but she doesn’t really know what to do when someone decides they don’t want to go to college. Several of the kids in my school want to become things like engineers and go to vocational and tech schools, and I myself want to become a nun. I feel a kind of pressure to go to college, but I really don’t want to. My family doesn’t have the money, there’s no way I’m getting a student loan, and there’s no guarantee I’ll get a grant or something like that. I really want things like religious life and the priesthood to be talked about more, but they’re, I think, cast aside, which is a shame since I go to a Catholic school.
Is college in America the same as university in the UK?
Eye opener
It burns me up people don't realize how destructive the institute of college is. You encouraging people to lose four years of productivity (in an economy already swimming in debt) with no benefit to society.
I learned a lot at the university. It makes you a well-rounded person. You are better able to understand the world around you and thrive in it. You learn from all the people that went before you, rather than attempting to learn by trial and error on your own. You learn to research, analyze and solve problems. It gives you confidence to tackle even the most challenging problems you will face in your career. I often tell myself, if I passed Calculus and Physics, then I can do anything. It also gives you prestige and makes companies feel more confident about hiring you.
skip college, watcher prager u, read daily wire, stay dumb
This video is for people majoring in non-STEM fields. In EE, a capacitor will always use an electric field to store charge. Whether it is coming from left right, liberal conservative, whatever. My doctor better have gone through med school and college and have done well.
Im in school for engineering and now I feel like I'm wasting my time, well I have, my first half of classes had nothing to do with engineering. But NASA and SpaceX don't hire non-degree holding people as engineers.
I have friends who didn’t go to college and found success in life, friends who didn’t go to college who haven’t found any success, and with the same end results as those who did go to college. I couldn’t have found success in my profession without my degree and I’m quite proud of it. I went to a state school and, and though some of my professors were certainly left leaning or solidly planted on the left, I learned to think for myself.
This video makes me feel good because I didn't get a high school degree let alone get a college degree.
The only reason I'm going to go to college is to become a entomologist. My dream job since I was eight.
Yep, I'm gonna have to agree with this guy. I was going for my bachelor's degree in writing, but I found something more useful, in which case I'll keep writing and not give up on It
It's rather biased to compare a country of 330 million people to country of 1.3 million based on some scientific discoveries.
As for success, highest number of unicorns per capita in the world have been founded by Estonians and/or based in Estonia.
I have a question for people:
I understand that the salaries for humanities and psychology and those types of areas are very low, but people have to do it. Why do conservatives think that everyone should go into STEM and stuff? Why are going into these professions looked down upon? If everyone tries to become an engineer, who will become the historians? The english teachers? the criminal psychologists? the detectives? Foreign policy creators (of whatever it's called)?
If everyone goes into STEM, society collapses.
Prageru mad they're not a real university
This is totally correct, I would have emphasized more the fact that having a college degree, but maybe not in the "newest" courses, shows you are capable of studying and achieving something
People got to realize college is a business. They can offer useless major to anyone because they know not everyone are interested in STEM field which are the highest paying major. This is why every American schools should teach students some finance , but most does not for some reason. Then Students dont realized they owed $100,000 in debt because they should of pick a better major that require a degree and that earn you the most money like doctors, lawyers, or engineer. But if you want to become a teacher at a field your so passionate about like gender study, you need a minimum of master degree which mean you have to pay more money to go to school to earn more money. Unless, you go to school since the 1980, you can choose any major you want since tuition and loans is not a big issues back then.
Communication or graphics design major think it is worth paying for four year for their degree and they end up working st a field that requires no degree.😂
Quick answer no it does not
Quick answer no it does not
So my marketing, graphic design and project management degrees are useless. But for some reason, I took accounting classes and I can file taxes for H&R Block while attending the income tax course. Hmmm…….. I should've been a college dropout.
8 of the top ten universities are American, we rank poorly in overall education because only a select few attend top universities, but those who do have accomplished immense achievements. Citing a few dozen exceptions doesn't change that.
I feel like this is the conservative mentality, to go to college, do things the oldschool way.
After having graduated with a masters degree in science, I do now realize that it's totally overrated. Academia turned out to be toxic cesspool of communist indoctrination. If you think that academia is about science, THINK AGAIN! Academia is willing to disregard basic facts, numbers, statistics and even the scientific method itself, if it does not produce the desired outcome of more and more academic control over our lives. Professors know they are unemployable in the private sector. Their "research" is mostly wild speculation and pure conjuncture. True research and innovation happens OUTSIDE the campus, not on it.
Ehhh… You kind of forget that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison actually were going to college. They just dropped out of a very prestigious college (like Harvard, Reed & De Anza, University of Texas Austin, University of Illinois and Chicago) and perused an easily exploitable product.
I wanna innovate space tech so college is the route for me
But I wanna be the one to create and make that new discovery so I'm just lost in this world
Most employers don't have college education but STILL demand from employees to have it!!
Even Bill Gates said that by year 2030 2/3 of all jobs in US will require education from college!
1:25-Why would you assume teachers are leftists?
I’m sorry. Do you not understand the basics of a democracy. Money comes from the people and most of it is put into comunity things such as college. That gives an education to put those people in better positions to pay more to the government. That is the basic movement of money. So the left saying invest in college is a very democracy pro effort. Is that a good thing? Up to you. I just hope you understand that people in power know what they are doing.