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Scott Walkers lack of College Degree.

Is Scott Walkers lack of a degree an issue

  • Yes, I dont take orders from some quitter

    Votes: 13 21.0%
  • No, he has enough real world experience to do the job

    Votes: 43 69.4%
  • Somewhat, I would like to see him finish.

    Votes: 6 9.7%

  • Total voters
    62
  • Poll closed .
I agree. His likeability was the major contributing factor to his elections, not his ideology. McCain and Romney lacked likeable personalities and displayed moments of significant poor judgement in my opinion. (Not that Obama makes a better president, but he is a master campaigner).
[emphasis added by bubba]

c'mon
go for it
he's a master debater
 
you would think that with the strength of connections to protect him in that degree they would also be able to buy him a diploma worked for dubya
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I considered that but to my knowledge, dubya didn't violate any major school policies like cheating or something. I don't know what transpired there with Walker other than those who are in a position to know make it very clear that the topic will not be discussed.
 
oxymoron much

no, not really, if he completed 3 years he's got college education,

I have all the credits I need for a 2 year degree minus one class, family issues came up, then I had to start working and making money. I plan to finish soon, but at this point I am educated at the CC level, just without the fancy certificate...
 
The curriculum for the degree is set by the faculty of the department (or higher up, too) to complete a prescribed course of study that satisfies their level of minimal study to show higher level education in that area.

Would you hire someone as mechanical engineer who never graduated with his degree and decided not to take statics and dynamics?

Further, would you say someone has a high school education if they dropped out after 9th grade? Of course not. "Has an education" _in "X" implies they took (and passed) the patently obvious and requisite courses to fully attain that education.

He took a bunch of college courses, but he didn't complete a degree. What field is he educated in specifically at a collegiate level?

difference is, in the engineering part, there is certain licensing required to be able to do that job, that's mandated at the state level. not the same as running for office where the qualifications are to convince 50%+1 that you seem like a cool dude(tte)

one can know how to drive a truck without possessing a commercial driver license, but having a license is a government requirement to work the job.

so these things are not apples to apples comparison.
 
I think those of highly educated persuasion will find it hard to take orders from him.
Also, college relationships last through careers and can help network of people to facilitate legislation and programs.
Lack of that makes you a clear outsider.
I know I wouldn't take orders from someone without a degree.

that's easy to fix, you're fired. go work somewhere else.

if I owned a business any moron employee who talked like that would be given a box of tissues and a pink slip.

let the eggheads refuse to work, we can always find more eggheads who will comply with their supervisor.
 
Our expectations and access to education have greatly changed during the seventy years since Truman first became president.

During Truman's era, only one in twenty Americans would compete their bachelors degree. Being in the top five percent of educated people would be a great asset to have for the leader of the free world, but it's not a compulsory expectation. Today, however, not having a degree puts you in the bottom two thirds in education attainment. I expect more from a leader.

Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

so you would actively work against a proven leader who's successful with many accomplishments because you expect a fancy piece of paper with a cursive title?

talk about shallow.
 
A college degree used to mean something in that a graduate was likely to have a broader understanding of societal evolution, governmental systems, economics, and the lessons of history - but the truth about those subjects isn't taught anymore.

Instead of informing students with facts and perspective, and giving them the tools to think critically upon that information - students today are indoctrinated in what to think and trained in how to behave and react to stimuli. Critical, independent thinking is not on the agenda; rather, ethos based groupthink has replaced true education.

Amerikan education has become a cesspool of collectivist, Skinnerian garbage designed to produce ignorant, easily controlled and manipulated serfs.

I have 2 young kids and one on the way... I have no intention of sending them to college. A waste of money, and a waste of time. They can learn everything they need to learn from home study, the library, and other alternative sources.
 
that's easy to fix, you're fired. go work somewhere else.

if I owned a business any moron employee who talked like that would be given a box of tissues and a pink slip.

let the eggheads refuse to work, we can always find more eggheads who will comply with their supervisor.
This doesn't sound in keeping with Atlas Shrugged's message.
so you would actively work against a proven leader who's successful with many accomplishments because you expect a fancy piece of paper with a cursive title?

talk about shallow.
No, but it's yet another reason to think that he's an unfit presidential candidate.
 
This doesn't sound in keeping with Atlas Shrugged's message.

never read the book, don't care whatever reference you're making

No, but it's yet another reason to think that he's an unfit presidential candidate.

depends, I'm tired of academics, I may not like Walker's politics, but he's a self made man, I would probably vote for him over Hillary, certainly over Warren.

some day the democrats will get smart and start nominating people like Dingell or Howard Dean etc and stop nominating these urban academics

well I can dream anyway.
 
never read the book, don't care whatever reference you're making



depends, I'm tired of academics, I may not like Walker's politics, but he's a self made man, I would probably vote for him over Hillary, certainly over Warren.

some day the democrats will get smart and start nominating people like Dingell or Howard Dean etc and stop nominating these urban academics

well I can dream anyway.
The book's not worth reading. Scott Walker isn't worth voting for. Check back for more single sentence reviews!
 
The book's not worth reading. Scott Walker isn't worth voting for. Check back for more single sentence reviews!

I figured so

Speak for yourself

single sentence arguing is fun
 
I don't really have a problem with Walker's lack of a degree. He has enough of a public record on which he is evaluated, that its possible to form an accurate assessment of him. I don't think a college degree is necessary to complete that picture.

Having said that, I definitely don't agree with the opinions of some who treat a college education almost as a negative in a person.
 
that's easy to fix, you're fired. go work somewhere else.

if I owned a business any moron employee who talked like that would be given a box of tissues and a pink slip.

let the eggheads refuse to work, we can always find more eggheads who will comply with their supervisor.
So you would work for some uneducated idiot?
 
academic supremacists make me giggle.

He has a college education, he lacks the degree, though.

So are you saying that he spent some time in college, but didn't have what it took to actually complete a program?

Bachelors degrees usually take four years to complete. A presidential term also takes four years. Hmm.
 


This man has a college degree and is in government.


He's from Georgia, so what do you expect?

How about Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Sheldon Adleson, John Makey and Matt Mulenweg. They didn't finish college either.

Were any of those people president?
 
I don't have a problem with his lack of a degree. I would be interested in why he didn't finish, but there could be a host of good reasons. I worked with some outstanding computer programmers that did not have a degree. They had a high degree of intelligence and they were committed to life long learning. They picked up books, read them, tried it out, and taught themselves what they needed to know.

I will go with a high degree of intelligence every time.
 
So are you saying that he spent some time in college, but didn't have what it took to actually complete a program?

Bachelors degrees usually take four years to complete. A presidential term also takes four years. Hmm.

yeah, he left Marquette one semester shy of earning his degree...
 
Education is kind of important to me. I couldn't vote for somebody who lacked a high school diploma. Lacking a college education and being president doesn't seem right to me.
 


This man has a college degree and is in government.

How about Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Sheldon Adleson, John Makey and Matt Mulenweg. They didn't finish college either.


Many of those people are more accomplished than Walker and have way more impressive resumes than him.
 
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I considered that but to my knowledge, dubya didn't violate any major school policies like cheating or something. I don't know what transpired there with Walker other than those who are in a position to know make it very clear that the topic will not be discussed.

Even if he was dismissed, that doesn't necessarily mean he did anything immoral or that he flunked out.

Both my parents were kicked out of their college for turning the ratting out the college to a state agency. The college kept tight lipped about the incident because they didn't want attention drawn to it, so my parents were able to enroll in a different college and graduate.
 
Is it an issue for you. I like him, but that is a sticking point.

It is not an issue.The purpose of college is to help you get a good job/career. If he got a good job/career with a college degree then who gives a flying **** other some partisan hack retards trying to make an issue out of nothing?
 
...They can learn everything they need to learn from home study, the library, and other alternative sources.

That won't help then any when they apply for a job that requires a college degree.

Anyhow, most parents don't "send" their kids to college. the kids go because they desire to go.
 
That seems foolish. What was he reasoning?

supposedly he got a job...I don't know where or doing what, though.


I have a good friend in the IT industry... he enrolled , declared a major ( computer science), and didn't even attend a single class before he was approached for a job... that was 20 years ago, and he's still with the same firm making very good money....he never went back to school for even 1 day.

walkers choice doesn't seem so silly when we look at where he is today... i mean, it doesn't seem to have hurt him whatsoever.
 
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