Why a college degree means nothing

Your n = 1 study is ground breaking! Have you considered getting published?

I assume that this person meant torturer?

Your thoughts wrote:

Your n = 1 study is ground breaking! Have you considered getting published?

Great reply! A+, #1 material. You are awesome. Well done. That was original. You are handsome.

A college degree in the liberal arts means nothing.

You, my friend, are clearly a Republican, scientific Richard.

A college degree in business means nothing haha.

People have different interpretations of self-worth. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion, but don't confuse your individual idea of worth as a universal principle. Also, try not to reflect your individual insecurities onto others.

Maybe his PC overheated and burst into flames and caused his house to catch on fire. Ever think of that, you pompous a-hole?

My thoughts wrote:

Your thoughts wrote:

Your n = 1 study is ground breaking! Have you considered getting published?

Great reply! A+, #1 material. You are awesome. Well done. That was original. You are handsome.

I don't know. I think he got you pretty good there, actually.

I see this all the time from otherwise very intelligent, well-spoken, learned people. I haven't figured out if people just don't care about spelling on Facebook or if pride in spelling is just completely going out the window across society. I tend to think a little from both columns.

I often find many of my college peers and college grads have poor spelling, and I've also heard seen it used as a way of dismissing higher learning as useless just like in the OP's post. The truth is, however, spelling is not taught at the college level (or even the high school level where I grew up). You're simply expected to know proper spelling or at least know how to look up the spelling of words you're unfamiliar with.

Really people, it isn't the end of the world because someone made some trivial spelling, grammar, etc. mistake.

Being a pedant is arguably a worse fault than spelling poorly!

I am going to admit my spelling has gone the wayside thanks to Spellcheck, Google and foreign languages, but never that far off the correct spelling.

I think everyone has met people at their respective Universities that come across as complete morons, making you wonder how the hell they got into the school. I've met people who couldn't name the first 3 Presidents or even name their home state's capitol. Education system is broke in the US.

Wise Guy wrote:

Really people, it isn't the end of the world because someone made some trivial spelling, grammar, etc. mistake.

I don't know, I think switching "torcher" and "torture" is more than trivial. Any time you have to stop and try and figure out what the person is trying to say is a serious communication flaw. Way more than a misplaced comma or apostrophe.

Ughh wrote:

I am going to admit my spelling has gone the wayside thanks to Spellcheck, Google and foreign languages, but never that far off the correct spelling.

I think everyone has met people at their respective Universities that come across as complete morons, making you wonder how the hell they got into the school. I've met people who couldn't name the first 3 Presidents or even name their home state's capitol. Education system is broke in the US.

I'll second that. Try reading something that a typical undergraduate wrote!

Why should anyone know the first 3 presidents? Why not know all of them?

no brain wrote:

Why should anyone know the first 3 presidents? Why not know all of them?

Because it's good to know about American history?

Plenty of people know all of them. It isn't that hard to remember a list of 43 names.

An Historian wrote:

no brain wrote:

Why should anyone know the first 3 presidents? Why not know all of them?

Because it's good to know about American history?

Plenty of people know all of them. It isn't that hard to remember a list of 43 names.

You essentially repeated what the other guy said. Why should we know about American history?

no brain wrote:You essentially repeated what the other guy said. Why should we know about American history?

Something you don't already know.

You may have wondered why, since it was Columbus who discovered America, why wasn’t it named Columbia, after him?

Historians tell us that when Columbus discovered our land, he didn’t believe that he had found a new continent; he simply believed that he had found an unexplored part of the continent of Asia. He even believed this until his death in 1506.

Meanwhile, another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, made four voyages to this land, beginning in 1497. He realized that this was a new, unknown land and simply called it the “New World,” and never suggested giving it his name or any other name for that matter.

Yet America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, and under strange circumstances. It seems that Vespucci wrote many letters to his friends describing the New World. A dishonest author was said to have gotten hold of some of these letters, rewritten them, and published them in a book.

This book found its way into the hands of a German map maker, who decided to call this new land after Amerigo. It would be Americus or America on his new map. He decided on America since that was the feminine form of the name, just as Europe and Asia are feminine names as well.

Other map makers followed this German’s lead, and America was born.

Amerigo Vespucci died without ever knowing that this land was named after him

no brain wrote:

An Historian wrote:

Because it's good to know about American history?

Plenty of people know all of them. It isn't that hard to remember a list of 43 names.

You essentially repeated what the other guy said. Why should we know about American history?

To understand the present and predict the future!