not only is this a stupid and ignorant idea, its a lie and i increasingly feel a quite intentional lie. and yes, i went to university in the UK in the  early 80′s too :)

The vast majority of businesses in the UK are run by people who didn’t go to University. At the other end of the scale, many of the major new tech companies were created by people who dropped out of or never went to College. An education is a wonderful thing but if my my own experiences is anything to go by I do wonder if there’s much worth in an education that isn’t explicitly self-motivated and self-directed, as opposed to just going to University for the “experience” or because it looks good on your résumé.When I went to Uni – electronic and information engineering, a proper degree :P – all my lecturers said the same thing: getting a university degree reveals an aptitude for sticking at something, but the bulk of your real education will be in work. That was the real importance of it – it allowed employers to filter potential employees. Now employers are still using it as a filter, but the scope is so broad it’s meaningless. My nephew told me that a Masters (which he is working on) is now the new minimum bar for jobs that only required a degree a decade ago.

Also, Suicide Girls is a great site.

Yay, the future.

“I recently sat down with Nicole Powers from Suicide Girls for an interview about the book and the issues it raises…”

Cue interview of yourself. You subversive goofball.

I hear you on higher ed. One of the problems in with cost again comes down to health care costs in America. Universities want to provide it for their employees and it keeps going up in cost, along with retirement contributions, heating costs, professor salaries, etc. 

Then, in places like PA, you have governor’s who keep peeling back the amount of money the state provides these “public” institutions. It sucks, especially for the students.