What Is An Education?

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unless one has at least a high school diploma there is no future anywhere
for him. This is completely untrue. There is no guarantee that getting a high
school "education" is going to get you anywhere. A student may spend eight
years between high school and college getting an "education." He can graduate
from college with A's in every class, but still, this "education" means nothing.
For example, suppose this "Straight A" student goes for a job interview.
Obviously one of the first things to be looked at is the college diploma. Good
grades, which by today's standards are an indication of an educated individual,
are usually very helpful in getting a good job. But alone, good grades are a
completely unfair indication of how a person will perform under the pressures of
the real world. Instead of looking at a person's grades during a job interview
and deciding whether that person is eligible for a particular position, why not
try something realistic? To determine a particular ...

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