CdnPilotsalary wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:15 am
SuperchargedRS wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:03 pm
Lol, you actually believe that crap? And are you really so naive as to think the manner most people text or post to these boards from their smart phones reflects how they would construct their CV or anything formal? Guess education and intelligence are really not linked eh?
If you want to talk about hardworking and seeing something through, I'll hold a ATP to a much higher regard than most university programs grads.
As for me, I had a college degree before my peers graduated college, however secondary education isn't what it was in our parents generation, remeber college is a product, unless you're going to be getting a good return on that investment, getting that degree can actually is far from impressive.
Seems like I've struck a chord here. SuperchargedRS, I'm not saying that you're stupid or that I'm better than you. For all I know you could have a PhD. I was just pointing out that it was ironic that the comment you made discrediting education was filled with typos and grammatical errors.
However, I don't agree that tertiary education is useless, as you claim. I got a great education from the university I attended. And most of my classmates are more intelligent and got better jobs than my peers that did not attend university.
Overall, do you think that the aviation industry is better off with a more educated pilot workforce, or a less educated one?
Tanker299 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:16 pm
A degree does not make you a better person or mean you are dedicated. They mean you spent money, took tests and got a piece of paper. In today's world post secondary is just cleaning up the mess made by parents who think their kids are all special and can't fail at anything. This is for some the first time they will be told no or have a failure. Kids are just not ready at 20 anymore. My wife has 3 degrees one being a masters and makes the same as I do and I will eventually earn more. My siblings all have degrees and again nothing. My friends have degrees masters and PHDs and only one is doing what he set out to do. Some people even hide in academia because they will never get along in the real world. My cousins GF at 39 has a PHd but went back to school for her second masters program because here other masters and phd did nothing for her? Or maybe she is not as capable as those degrees say she should be. I even applied for a degree at a reputable physical university here in Canada and when I applied they said I should be applying for a masters. Education does not have to come from a university, there was a syllabus, exams and requirements to meet with some sort of recognized body.
So we don't all have great grammar or give a rats arse on an Internet forum. That's all ya got to discredit someone and make your self feel more better, how someone finger bangs their keyboard.
You're right, it doesn't make me a better person. Maybe university was easy for you ... but myself, and most of my friends, found university level sciences to be quite difficult. Personally, my degree took a great deal of grit and hard work. I'm proud of my accomplishment -- and I certainly don't think that my time in university was useless.
A chord with me? no, frankly for you to offend me I'd have to care about your opinion, and if you got run over by a car tonight, or won the lotto, I'll still wake up and have breakfast just the same in the morning.
Your comment was just a stupid annoyance that i have from living in a the college town, funny how you were mentioning someone being better than someone and then said for all you know I could have a PHD...as if that bought and paid for degree has jack to do with your worth the world
The majority of bartenders around here have masters degrees, yet I have a 2 year and make significantly more money than most in my town.
Now we still have engineering degrees, people going to law school, getting their RN or MD, but for the majority of secondary education programs, it's a big circle jerk, a self licking ice cream cone of "education" lots of learning and very little doing, and you're often learning from someone who has never even professionally done what he or she is teaching.
Compare that to getting a ATP, that's done through experience, and experience is a very good, albeit unforgiving teacher.