"I don't want to have to think!"

[DisneyMom]

Disneymom, you might be on to something. I am thinking around the lines of a family trip to the homeless shelter to serve food. I am sure she will facebook all about how lame it is. *cringe*

She may, but I can personally attest to the syndrome of a mother's voice nagging in the kid's head for the REST OF THEIR LIFE. ;)

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

There is an increasing attitude of anti-intellectualism in this country which seems to cause students to actively AVOID learning anything...

Makes me sad.

8^(

well, we DO need skilled manual labor. seriously.

growing up, my grandfather was a farmer and my father was a laborer. it was a seriously hard life to go to work. I remember them always saying the education is the key.

kids today don't seem to have the reality hit them in the face.

knowing what hard work looked like, I made sure that I put myself through college.

My working conditions are something that they could only dream of, if they ever thought about it.

the anti-intelligence attitude is really self correcting. when they enter the job market, not everyone is going to be a supermodel, or a skateboard/snowboarding champ right out of high school.

They will be suprised that they won't be getting the 200K+ a year job with company car. (those are reserved for someone that not only graduated college, but also knows how to apply the knowledge)

[kcberlin]

They will be suprised that they won't be getting the 200K+ a year job with company car. (those are reserved for someone that not only graduated college, but also knows how to apply the knowledge)

Or knows someone much higher up on the food chain than they will ever hope to be.

[hobie16]

I loved interviewing freshly minted MBAs who felt they should be given a whole division to manage and run into the ground. The only thing they knew about life was case studies.

[Mayonnaise]

That's the attitude my brother, the Management Batchelor's had.

It.... didn't work out the way he wanted it to.

8^P