{"id":1127,"date":"2009-06-13T15:33:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2009-06-14T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T22:09:18","slug":"institutionalized-thinking-via-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/institutionalized-thinking-via-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutionalized Thinking Via Formal Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, we’re gonna do something radically different — something so shocking, something so… so… well, anti-Barry and Heather that you’ll either smile big or frown in frustration.<\/p>\n

Okaaaaaay, here it goes:<\/p>\n

WE’RE NOT GONNA RIDE IN ON *OUR<\/strong>* SOAP BOX ON THIS TOPIC.<\/p>\n

Instead, today we just want to pass along something that we saw in our new favorite magazine, The Week<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

But before we do, we’ll first say that one of our Renegade Growth Pak teachers<\/strong><\/a> emphatically asked, on our live call with him, to anybody who feels they’re owed one: “Who are you to think you’re entitled to an education?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

And, ya know, his explanation for that stop-in-your-tracks<\/em> question made what good ol’ Farmer John would call “some damn good horse sense.”<\/p>\n

So, Dear Reader, what do you say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us pepper (stimulate) your noggin first with what Michael Moynihan, a columnist at Reason.com, has to say:<\/p>\n

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From The Week<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Too many people are attending college these days,” said Michael Moynihan. It’s both “impolite and impolitic” to say so, but the modern idea that everyone should get a college education — emphatically supported by President Obama — is, frankly, dumb.<\/p>\n

Obama is now planning a massive expansion of the federal Pell Grant program, making a college education another taxpayer-funded entitlement open to all. But, here’s the reality: More than two-thirds of U.S. high school graduates, a recent Harvard University study found, are unprepared to enter a traditional four-year liberal arts program.<\/p>\n

Indeed, “more than 40 percent of students who enter college drop out before graduation.” Today, many young people enter college out of obligation, seeing it purely as a means to a higher salary. College makes great sense for those who truly value a higher education, and will make use of it after graduation. But not everyone is capable of academic success, and for those destined for “a management-level job training program at Hertz,” college is just an expensive waste of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What we want from you is this<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Your commentary, thoughts, opinions and experiences on one, two or multiple aspects of the following (these are just to spark some ideas… you may have something else to say on the topic):<\/p>\n

><\/strong> How do you feel about this subject?<\/p>\n

><\/strong> Is your formal education (if you have it) important to you? Did\/does it serve you?<\/p>\n

><\/strong> Are you currently working (or have you ever worked) in the same field as your degree?<\/p>\n

><\/strong> If you had to do it all over again, would you take the same schooling?<\/p>\n

> <\/strong>Are societal perceptions of the value of institutionalized education skewed?<\/p>\n

><\/strong> Is it okay to you that the educational establishment wants you to believe that it’s responsible for all learning?<\/p>\n

><\/strong> etc, etc.<\/p>\n

Lay it on us… the comments section is below…<\/p>\n

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\"Barry<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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