[Bob Seger]

I agree. For most careers, college degrees are nothing but scams. A really good high school education - which very few students receive - and some very focused training in the field of one's choice would prepare most people for a career far better than our current system. There are exceptions, such as the medical field and engineering but most people would do fine without most of the required courses that are typical with today's four-year degrees. I have an engineering degree, but probably 95 percent+ of what I did as a mining engineer did not require any of the knowledge that I gained in college - and most of the remaining 5 percent could have been addressed with a beefed up high school math curriculum.

Another thing that disgusts me about today's college degree mills is that it costs as much or more to earn a degree online as it does to attend a bricks and mortar school. The cost of delivering content via the web should be much less than the cost of a traditional college education. I attribute the fact that it is not cheaper to government regulations and the greed of government employed college administrators and teachers. Their salaries are kept artificially high considering their light work load and often negligible useful knowledge that is imparted to their students.

I would much rather hire an employee with an abundance of common sense and are willing to work with street saavy over one that has 3 degrees. Most degree holders that I have hired ended up being educated idiots that ended up having trouble tieing their own shoes.

In my opinion, a communications or a business degree is basicly useless and a huge waste of money. Todays high schoolers are basicly being shamed by their guidance councellors into believing that a degree is a must to survive in todays society, because in reality they dont know anything any better themselves.