Dave Talks About Useless Degrees

I believe in education I believe in knowing more tomorrow than I knew today you get education of course a lot of different ways and a good way to get in a good education as we call it is to get a good college degree we've lost our minds though on this college stuff and people go out and spend 150,000 bucks and student loan debt to get a PhD in German polka history or some such crap right and so people get these degrees that are useless they study these mundane obtuse things that don't have anything to do with anything and it's giving a college education a bad name so I don't have anything against the college education I did get a funny funny funny thing in from Dan Miller a few minutes ago dan Miller of 48 days to the work you love he said David my continued research on into how education is changing it became clear this is not exactly a new idea in 1744 when George Washington was just a twelve-year-old boy the collected Chiefs of the Indian nations met to discuss a letter from the College of William and Mary suggesting they'd send 12 of their young men to college that they might be taught to read and write the Chiefs sent the fault the Indian chiefs sent the following reply we know that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in colleges and that the maintenance of our young men while with you would be very expensive to you we are convinced therefore that you meant to do us good by your proposal and we thank you heartily but you who are wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things and you will therefore not take it amiss if our ideas of this kind of Education happen to not be the same with yours we have some experience of it several of our young men were formally brought up at the college's of the northern provinces they were instructed in all your sciences but when they came back to us they were bad runners ignorant of every means of living in the woods unable to bear either cold or hunger knew neither how to build a cabin take dear or kill an enemy spoke our languages imperfectly and therefore neither and therefore neither fit for hunters warriors nor counselors they were totally good-for-nothing we are however not the less obliged to your kind offer though we decline accepting it and to show our grateful sense of it the gentleman of Virginia well if the gentleman of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons we will take care of their education instruct them in all that we know and make men of them oh that's just wonderful it's absolutely fabulous send your college boys over here and we will make men of them the first time the frat boys were insulted right there I love it 17:44 you believe that date in the language you have to love the language absolutely amazing someone was obviously trained in the English language and well fabulous stuff you guys would be so rich so fast and be able to do so much not only for yourselves and for your family but for others

Channel: The Ramsey Show Highlights

Views: 1,015,148

Keywords: drtlgi, Dave Ramsey, debt, The Dave Ramsey Show, money, Ramsey Solutions

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Length: 3min 53sec (233 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 12 2015