Although I don't have a college degree, I did attend college for a couple years.  An associate's degree in machine tool technology was requisite for an experimental position at my workplace.  Halfway through my schooling, the experiment fizzled, and with that, my academic career.  Although I was working at the factory seven days a week and teaching the Bible twice a week at one of the bigger churches in town, I maintained a 4.0 GPA.  For contrast, I graduated high school with a 1.75 GPA. But I was striving for a position, not a piece of paper.  When the position evaporated, so did my academic stint. AT carried an article on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, titled, "The Decline and Fall of Higher Education," by Michael Thau, Ph.D., a professor of philosophy for 13 years, in which he lamented both what college students are not learning and what they are learning: poor work ethic, low goals, and prioritizing partying over...(Read Full Post)