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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your daughter is correct.

There is no point to an elite college.... Unless your intention is to have rich friends.

The point to life is to be a good person, have good friends, be kind to strangers, give back to your community and (hopefully) have a close family.

A surgeon from Penn is no happier than a plumber, if you can afford a house, food, have close friends.

Once you have a certain amount of money, happiness does not increase  with more money and eventually declines.[/quote]

dcum's love to laud plumbers and blue collar trades without actually being blue collar themselves. there's a reason why blue collar moms and dads also push their kids to college. blue collar people (god bless them) pay with their bodies at age 50+.

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While that is true, lawyers pay with alcoholism, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

1/2 my family are blue collar, 1/2 not...both have positive and negatives.

Her daughter asked a real question, she deserves an honest answer.

Not educating your Children about the pitfalls of the "Rat race" is just as ignorant as not educating you children about the pitfalls of "blue collar" work, or being a xray tech or being a chef, or an accountant, or a million other things that don't require an education at an elite college.[/quote]

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