If you have been looking for a job, you no doubt know that today you must have a college education to obtain any position of consequence. In many respects, I think this is wrong. Dr. J.W. Gardner, President of the Carnegie Foundation, has observed, “We place an altogether false emphasis on college education. The prestige which a college degree has achieved in our society leads people – – quite incorrectly – – to assume that college is the only form of continued learning after high school….”
In hiring men, I prefer to look at the man, not his diploma. I remember working for an organization once which insisted on a psychological test before employing an executive. It was a new company, so all the executive staff had to submit to these six hour tests. The man who won the job as general manager what was judged by the test to be a "brilliant, multi-aptitude type." I just got in by the skin of my teeth.
However, subsequent events proved that the brilliant, multi-aptitude type was in way over his head. He was completely unable to cope with the people around him and after two miserable years he was relieved from his post. Me, the skin-of-the-teether, who had 10 years practical experience in this particular business stayed on for 10 years. I would not like to leave the impression that I am against college educations, for nothing could be farther from the truth. However, a diploma does not necessarily mean a man can handle a job. I have always been of the opinion that education is what you learn regardless of where you learn it.
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