"The degree is your ticket to admission . . . " (1 March 2009)

VivianLea:

Please ignore Bailey's advice. Ignore anyone who tells you that "the degree is your ticket of admission." Those who say so these days, are, after all, the ones who laughed at and rebelled against the pro-offered future in "plastics," a al The Graduate. They clearly are ones who don't really want the status-quo to change all that much.

For the last while, the cool kids respected those who got into Berkeley/Harvard. That day is ending. The emerging breed are going to respect those who valued themselves and true education enough, not to be degree or grade chasers. They'll stop the degree when it seems right to them, not when it looks right to unimaginative, uninteresting others. They're the ones who are going to do the stuff worth watching, in this new "America."

Link: After Meltdown, Back to Post-Secondary (Tyee)