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Originally Posted by marleyisalegend  i'll go on record as saying any day that a college education makes you no more educated than sitting in the garage makes you a car. to some degree, a college degree just means you know how to listen to someone and remember what they told you. it doesn't mean you know how to think for yourself or understand real life situations. |
I used to feel this way, but after trudging through some college...
Lets just say, it depends on the degree. Liberal arts degrees like psychology, sociology, and economics, are pretty much that way. But it is very, very rare to find a qualified mathemetician or statistician that taught themselves, and I doubt there has ever been a self taught engineer or chemist.
So, in short, hard sciences no. Liberal arts, yes.
Why women are graduating in greater numbers:
Sociologically, I say its because men, if they fail, are on the streets. Women, if they fail, can find a man to take care of them. College is a very expensive risk for a man. This is why it took me 10 years to get back in, after paying my own way for a year straight out of college. Furthermore, I remember looking for scholarships, and the scholarships for women outnumbered those for either (I don't remember any for men exclusively) by at least 2 to 1.