Dennis Prager argues college degrees have become worthless, citing Dan Colflesh, who spent years earning an associate's in physics and bachelor's in political science only to face student debt and no job prospects. Walmart, Accenture, and IBM have dropped degree requirements. Prager calls political science a propaganda machine born from "science envy."
My bachelor's degree is worthless. Millennial who quit his job to pursue college complains he can't find work as more employers are— as more employers are degree-crunchers. It's the number of typos in the Daily Mail. I don't even know what the rest of that sentence is, but It doesn't matter. Dan Colflesh quit his job in the customer service industry, age 34, to pursue a degree in the hopes of bettering his employment prospects. The now 43-year-old has declared his degree worthless after spending years following graduation struggling to land a job and saddled with student debt. In 2021, Cole Flesh graduated with an associate physics degree from community college and a bachelor's in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His story comes amid speculation that college degree is losing its value as Walmart, Accenture, and IBM all axed degree requirements on their corporate job descriptions. Well, you see that there is good news on occasion. I'm sorry for this guy, that, that's not the good news. The good news is that it is less and less required. It was worthless all of my life in the terms of you didn't learn much. Political science is a waste, as an example. It's not toxic like gender studies, but it is a waste. Political science doesn't mean anything. I took courses in it and it didn't mean anything when I was there. In fact, if I recall correctly, at Columbia, where I was at graduate school, not not college, not undergraduate, but they didn't even have a department of political science. Isn't that interesting? It was called government, which makes a lot more sense. There is no such thing as political science. The name was made up because people outside of the sciences worship the sciences. And so they— this is the truth. This is exactly why You have this, even this name, even political science. It's because of the— they had science envy of people who studied physics and chemistry and biology and astronomy. So we, oh, we, we're, we have science too. Ours is political science. This poor guy got a BA in political science. What the hell are you going to do with that? Literally the only thing that it prepares you for is to teach political science. So that way you have studied something worthless and then you teach something worthless. And needless to say, political science departments have been taken over by the left and therefore what you get is propaganda. I mean, which in the worst possible sense of the word, because it's bad, bad values. People get so annoyed when I point out every day the toxicity of leftism. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to pragertopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.
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