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> Only if whatever enhances their intelligence also amplifies their ambition

Or if it amplifies their entitlement. I wouldn’t be surprised if the more people spend of college, the more they expect in return.




I think that’s a given, isn’t it? When most people (in the US at least) are financing their education via loans if they’re going to take out increasingly larger loans they’re going to have to expect more in return in order to pay those loans back. I don’t know I would call that “entitlement” though.


Heh, I was thinking about the entitlement in the normal sense, but forgot it'd probably read as eNtITLEMenT in the internet meme/political meme sense.


High Risk != High Reward. There are far too many college educated people in the US that assume this. I walked in getting my degree knowing full well I was paying simply for the paper and the potential for getting a job in my field. I didn't walk in like I did the first time getting my associates degree believing I'd be making $50k upon graduation.


To pay your own education is one part of the equation, to be successful is still on you.




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