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Holding a Degree

I am holding two. I have been tired of holding them. Can I let go? Frankly I have let go long ago and do not even know what holding them really meant. Some cost a lot too. Mine fortunately did not back in the day. Today people pay a lot to get one and to hold one. Some go beyond earning one by merely fabricating one or two. Even the glitziest of CEOs were found lacking - in that they were not holding on to anything and assumed they would have a smooth flight. When the turbulence did hit they were left with no lifeline - of sorts. They did have a backup parachute in some cases and have since landed and dusted off and gone off to make gobs of money that they felt entitled to. Again the correlation here is holding degrees to earning money. Money indeed is the life blood of today's dysfunction but hey you need ammo to fight the fight. Degrees also come with degrees of credibility. Some from well known institutions cost a lot in tuitions as your intuition would suggest. That may or may not translate into much if you drop out in the middle. Sometimes dropping out and not holding any degree does work for some outliers. Some are outright liars as we have seen earlier. As indicated its a matter of degree. The planet is full of dolts that boast impressive degrees or credentials. These folk continue to head positions in organizations with fancy titles so they have more holding on to do. For said holding they get to manage a lot of paper pushing. They hire people who to a lesser degree can manage their own paper and provide appearance of a well run organization. Sometimes these turn out to be false papers with false signatures and senate hearings and bailouts and then the deck of cards collapses. So perhaps its time we visited the no holds barred method of education which will emphasize that holding is passe and we should really focus on thinking.
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  1. RajendraJanuary 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM

    Hold it, am I right in thinking that we are sinking like a stone, or is it that it is happening by degrees?

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  2. Diamond HeadJanuary 20, 2013 at 8:54 AM

    If the educational iceberg is Zero Degrees then we are sinking like the Titanic

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