Damien Katz

College gives you a piece of paper and only matters to some peoples heads. Why go to college when all the information needed to do anything is already available in books and on the Internet?

Why not skip the messing around, which is college today?

Sorry, but passion alone is not enough. Passion alone is what built the bridge over the River Kwai. There is definitely a distinction between having a degree and not. If you have that much passion and drive to make it on your own, it still makes sense to get a degree- it still requires passion, just a more responsible kind. And there is a difference between training and education; the reason students don't actually say it out loud is because they are too busy learning. Not sure what she's trying to say about quality of K-12 vs. higher level; US university college degrees are the most sought-after, globally. Lots of other nations have fantastic K-12 systems but much worse colleges. The biggest reasons that I chose to stick with it was simply finishing what I'd started, invested years of my life into, and remembering that anything I'd learn at a trade school I'd have to teach myself anyway. This author is ready to let her kid attend a less expensive school as a lesser of two evils; how hard can it be to learn how to cook vegetarian? In life, you don't want to take the course that teaches you how to make the vegetarian peanut butter and jelly sandwich; that's training. You want to take the course that teaches you how to write the _recipe_ for making a vegetarian peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That's education.

Be an engineer first, and then your dreams are more easily achived. Music is mechanical vibration. Be a physics/ logic major. An information guide, in which you are limited only by your physical being. People guess at what they do not understand.