Graduates of elite schools often have great jobs and big incomes. This doesn't mean that the intellectual content of those schools is so valuable. Schools select people who have traits like intellience and determination. There is little reason to think that it is the education (above a useful minimum) that is making the difference in most cases.

Don't Envy the Ivy Schools
10/10/10 - EasyOpinions -> Washington Post by Jay Mathews

Who Needs Harvard?
--> www.brookings.edu/articles/2004/10education_easterbrook.aspx
Research by economists Alan B. Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale.

Quip:
Admissions Officer: Congratulations on being admitted to Harvard.
Mike: I am honored to do my partying at one of the finest schools in the country.

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Mathews:  [edited]  The Ivy League and other top colleges add no discernable value to the lives of their graduates. They attract students with strengths such as persistence and humor that lead to success. Applicants with such qualities do just as well in life attending schools like Boise State.

The atmosphere at elite colleges is similar to what you find at most colleges. The college years are for trying out new stuff. Undergraduates devote little time to absorbing academic riches.
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Most annoying are people who drop where they went to school into conversation right when you meet them. These people are not usually those who went to Boise State. If you're 21, where you just graduated from is understandably somewhat front and center in your life. If you are 41...well, if the most impressive thing about you is that you went to Harvard...thanks, but I'd rather talk to the janitor.

Don't you mean FIVE years smashed on grain alcohol?

Another popular bumper sticker: My kid and my money go to MyState U.

Most annoying are people who drop where they went to school into conversation right when you meet them.

In the military you know the crappy officers fairly quickly. They are the ones that get to the O-3/Captain or above level (middle mgmt.) and they make sure that you know they are an Academy grad within a week of meeting them. They still wear the academy grad ring or mention it somehow.

Then there was an officer, that it took a year of casually working with, until I found out he was an Academy grad. He was a guy that I could truly respect.

America's university system is breaking down. The faculty has been invaded and corrupted by leftist thought; the administrative overhead is growing exponentially, the student body overall requires too many remedial classes, and the course material doesn't keep up with the real world. The future, at least the near future, belongs to DIY higher ed. You can already find a lot of the coursework you need, online, for free. And as people learn things, they post what they've learned, and then other people learn from them. Add in a few textbooks that you can purchase online, and you can build a complete degree program for yourself.

A friend from the East Coast told me about a friend's unassuming dad, who, when asked what he did, would say, "I work in a bank."

He actually ran the bank.

I saw a similar bumper sticker the other day. The driver was male:

Driver carries no cash - married.

I have a friend who when asked what he does for a living says that he is an electrician. He is a neurosurgeon.

The Ivy league schools preach entrepreneurship. Some of our worst employees are from Ivy league schools. They are the ones who didn't have the talent to run their own businesses, are now pissed that they have to work for someone else, and feel entitled.

I have a friend who when asked what he does for a living says that he is an electrician. He is a neurosurgeon.

Ha ha! That is clever!