good words from elsewhere
“…I wish to say three little words to those enrolled for classes this fall: QUIT SCHOOL NOW!
“The belief that a university education is in some way going to help you secure a job is surely now known to be a heinous lie by most people. It is a lie propagated by the upper class to allow the hoi polloi to feel privileged in some way.
“While they laugh their way through Upper Canada College and down to Harvard, we arrive into the world with an engineering degree, which equals cog-in-someone’s wheel or even worse, an arts degree which equals cog-in-no-one’s wheel.
“Believe you me, the historians will laugh at the twentieth century. As they uncover old yearbooks, they will glance knowingly at each other before uttering the single word: SUCKERS!”
— Don Birnam
Letter to the Editor, Imprint (Waterloo)
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