[SWLUG] Utility of University study

[Dick Bain]

Should the title be "futility of university study"? ;-)

On 9 January 2011 01:31, ilyan <ilyan.thomas at virgin.net> wrote:

> Gerald
> It is as well to inform the young that it was worth having a degree when
> less than 5% of the population went to University, and a lot of those
> were so rich they were never going to compete in the jobs market.
>
> Read up what Spinoza said.   or was it Descartes?
>
> Bright people are likely to get sponsorships from the likes of IBM to go
> to get a useful degree at University followed by an assured job.
> Duller people will go into debt to get a degree to compete to work for a
> Corporation so driving  down wages.
>
> Tregeles Price the Ironmaster finding  it expensive  to employ people
> who could read  and do sums, built a free school  in the village.   It
> was not long before he was able to stop  paying fancy wages to induce
> the literate to live there.
>
> I do have a substatial contempt for Academics in Economics and Politics
> who have not seen the internal flaw in Marxism, nor understood (so the
> necessary taxes are not applied) how Keynes avoids the internal flaw in
> Capitalism.    I generally call for dogmatic Marxist bigots to be
> replaced by scientific Marxists.    I find none.
>
> I go out of my way to kick the politically correct.   They
> hypocritically turn accurate descriptions into insults, and make ripe
> idiots of themselves misusing terms that are quite wrong for what they
> are describing.
>
> Education has been reduced to indoctrination to make easy cogs to fit in
> the Capitalist machine.   Some people have an Educational CD that
> includes reliable books from the Plebs' League, and reliable teaching as
> put out by the CIA in "The Analysis of Intelligence".
>
> I recommend that last book though it is widely hated by half baked
> Socialists.  I puzzle why there are so many of them when  Socialist
> ideas were brought fully baked into Wales in the 1880s.   To flower in
> "The Miners' Next Step" in 1912, and be sold out by half baked Trades
> Union Congress in 1926.
>
> Regards
>
> Ilyan
>
>
>
> On 08/01/2011 12:05, Gerald Davies wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:24, ilyan<ilyan.thomas at virgin.net>  wrote:
> >> Ilyan
> > troll.
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