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Feb 15, 2015 02:03:26   #
AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State
 
http://m.lenconnect.com/article/20150214/OPINION/150219302/-1/sports

Megan McArdle: Who needs a diploma to be president?

The Washington Post has a lengthy article on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s college career and his decision to drop out of Marquette University during his senior year. I read it carefully, and I think that this piece raises a pretty important question about his p**********l campaign.

Namely: Who cares?

We’re talking about events that happened almost 30 years ago

None of them are illegal, or even, frankly, very interesting. (He got a D-minus in French!) So why are we talking about this?


This is not the first time I’ve heard that Walker’s status as a college dropout must mean there’s something wrong with him. Decent, hardworking, upper-middle-class people who write for good media outlets graduate from college, dammit. If Walker didn’t, that must tell you something ominous about his character.

Now, maybe I’m partial, because I myself racked up a few D’s in college, and for much the same reason that Walker seems to have: I didn’t go to class enough. Unlike Walker, I pulled it together, got my grades up and got my diploma on time. But it was touch-and-go for a while.

Does that tell you something about my character? Yes, I think it does — at the age of 20. But, sadly, that was a couple of decades ago, and I’ve changed a bit since then.

When I was finishing my book, which involved a months-long stream of 18- hour days, my mother took me aside and said, “You have to stop working so hard. You’re wearing yourself out.” All I could do was laugh, and after I said, “Mom, when I was 20, could you have imagined yourself saying those words to me?,” she laughed, too.

My employers don’t have to look at my college record to assess my critical-thinking sk**ls or my work ethic. I guess they could look at my grad school transcript, where I did pretty well, or better yet, they could look at the work I have been putting out pretty steadily since 2001.

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Feb 16, 2015 23:18:42   #
motive power
 
AuntiE wrote:
http://m.lenconnect.com/article/20150214/OPINION/150219302/-1/sports

Megan McArdle: Who needs a diploma to be president?

The Washington Post has a lengthy article on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s college career and his decision to drop out of Marquette University during his senior year. I read it carefully, and I think that this piece raises a pretty important question about his p**********l campaign.

Namely: Who cares?

We’re talking about events that happened almost 30 years ago

None of them are illegal, or even, frankly, very interesting. (He got a D-minus in French!) So why are we talking about this?


This is not the first time I’ve heard that Walker’s status as a college dropout must mean there’s something wrong with him. Decent, hardworking, upper-middle-class people who write for good media outlets graduate from college, dammit. If Walker didn’t, that must tell you something ominous about his character.

Now, maybe I’m partial, because I myself racked up a few D’s in college, and for much the same reason that Walker seems to have: I didn’t go to class enough. Unlike Walker, I pulled it together, got my grades up and got my diploma on time. But it was touch-and-go for a while.

Does that tell you something about my character? Yes, I think it does — at the age of 20. But, sadly, that was a couple of decades ago, and I’ve changed a bit since then.

When I was finishing my book, which involved a months-long stream of 18- hour days, my mother took me aside and said, “You have to stop working so hard. You’re wearing yourself out.” All I could do was laugh, and after I said, “Mom, when I was 20, could you have imagined yourself saying those words to me?,” she laughed, too.

My employers don’t have to look at my college record to assess my critical-thinking sk**ls or my work ethic. I guess they could look at my grad school transcript, where I did pretty well, or better yet, they could look at the work I have been putting out pretty steadily since 2001.
http://m.lenconnect.com/article/20150214/OPINION/1... (show quote)


This country was fought for and laid out by men at a time when what we call higher education these days wasn't even thought about. They done a fair job of it and until our educated liberals of to day got involved with it everything worked well. Mostly what I see from the higher education bunch over the last 20 years is drinking, drugs and spring break.

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