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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up around here and never really knew of anyone (except for one of my grandmothers) who did not/had not gone to college.  Regardless of whether how smart a person may be, or what they did with their degree or not, etc., I do find it a bit weird in this day and age if people do not go to college (ie finish college).  That just seems a bit strange to me.  I am sorry.  I always did also think it was a little. . .different?. . . that one of my grandmothers did not go to college; we were told that her father, in that day, did not think that girls needed to go to college (her brother went) and so she went to secretarial school and then became a secretary in NYC, where she met my grandfather.  I thought it was peculiar and old-fashioned that her father would think girls would not need to go to college.  OFf course, now as an adult, I have learned that was not unusual for that day and age, but I was always proud of my other grandmother for going to college too (she majored in math and then became a h.s. math teacher)and, considering this would have been in the 40s or so, I do find it a big peculiar in this day and age, now, for adults not go or have gone to college.  Again, this is whether they become successful or not, do something with it or not, etc.  I just feel like it's something everyone should do, it makes you a more well educated and well-rounded/aware individual, and then you go on from there and build your life.  Just my two cents based upon my life experience!  I'm sorry!    [/quote]

I really don't think college is required for becoming a well rounded/educated individual. And a lot of idiots graduate from college.

I'm speaking as a college grad, BTW. I posted earlier that very few people in my family have college degrees and my sister and I were the first women in our family to graduate from college. My parents believed it was necessary for my brother to go to college, but not us so they had a college fund for him, but not us. Ironically enough, we went to college and he did not (he went to the Air Force instead).

There are many ways to be educated and many ways to become well rounded. College is only one.[/quote]

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