Internet vs. traditional education?

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After you read this I want your feedback - more on that in a minute.

It has to do with your Internet entrepreneurial success so hang with me here.

If you have kids you know that the cost of attending college is shooting up so fast that it’s scary.

It’s shocking to recall that fifteen years ago I attended a state college and paid a bundle of money to learn a lot of things I NEVER use today. For example, why exactly did I endure a semester of 8AM (Mon,Wed,Fri) “Economic Geography” while pursuing a technology related degree? Someone please answer that…

Of the many courses I took while obtaining my degree I can confidently say that I don’t use ANYTHING I learned in 90% of those classes (as if I can remember any of it anyway).

And yet my degree was 100% necessary to land my first job out of college. So in the end the $50 thousand and five years of my life that I spent on college helped me land a $29 thousand annual salary job - which I was laid off from one year later.

This article isn’t a debate about the usefulness of college though - let’s move on.