why learning is an never-ending class
July 9, 2007
It’s a class where you can never quite complete the final exam. Write the thesis. Get the diploma.
It’s life.
And how we manage life in 2007 has changed. It’s no longer following the college path like it has for the 2 generations preceding. My parents. And their parents. The path my folks took was the basic 12 years plus college which would yield a degree and that would mean a quote unquote good job.
Now whatever the focus may be in college, most likely the job would NOT be in any similar field. It often looks like it was simply the aquisition of the degree, the stick-to-ive-ness of getting through those 4 years (or more), the showing a sense of completion, that something was studied in university, that’s what ensures getting hired.
Here’s what I propose is the difference. Just during my lifetime the reasons to go to college have changed dramatically.
Here’s how it goes now.
It’s experience that counts, not the degree. The fact is, kids in 4th and 5th grade are learning PowerPoint. They’re becoming entrepreneurs before finishing middle school. So how can someone out-of-college and in the workforce ever hope to compete? The trend most recently seems to be experience over having the degree. Kids can get hired right out of school long before they finish – and you thought this was only happening in the NBA for high school basketball players.
It wasn’t that long ago when having a college degree was the only way to gain entry into the most lucrative areas of business. Going to a trade school could only promise meager salaries and was often relegated to those students who didn’t have the money or the grades to attend college. I see that’s not the case anymore.
See: 23-Year-Old Mark Zuckerberg Has Google Sweating
Published: July 9, 2007
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Just as Google has become what some people call the operating system for search, Facebook is turning itself into the operating system for social networking. While Google knows what millions of people are searching for, Facebook has something the search giant hasn’t been able to grow: a network of connections between people that creates a viral distribution platform unrivaled by any portal or search engine.
