Would you want someone like that to work for you? To trust them with your business, your clients? I’m not talking about those who got pregnant and had to take some time off. I’m talking about the true mrs degree, who only got the degree to meet a college educated man, and secure a social position as a wife, and has demonstrably shown they’re willing to abandon the potential of education the moment their life allows it? And then go back to “work” when they feel like it? I wouldn’t trust that person to walk my dog. It shows that they “value” education not for its own sake, but only for what it can gain them in terms of looking for a mate. It is disgustingly selfish. There are many different ways to educate oneself, and not everyone is entitled to a college degree. People claw and die for a chance at education in other places. They give up everything to immigrate here and get a little chance to study at American universities, like I did. I was valedictorian at my school but was told that I couldn’t get into Harvard because I didn’t have any legacy, and no one to speak for me. Who took my place, I wonder? To get a degree just for your own pleasure is so elitist and awful. If you want to educate yourself outside of college, you can to a damn public library and read some books.
And I disagree about the zero sum game. There were only so many spots available for the college program I was in-50, to be exact. There were about 250 applicants. If someone took that spot, that means someone else did not. Maybe they went elsewhere, sure. But maybe not.
