Colleges and Universities – Scams-R-Us
Bill Gates, college drop-out, lecturing to potential grads.
Pounding around and looking at metaphysical stuff (like I am inclined to do), I found yet another person being pilloried in absentia by some hyper-critical goofballs (affectionately called) who really haven’t thought their own thoughts through.
Colleges and Universities are, like their government sponsors, just pulling a big scam on all their students, their faculty, their alumni, and the people at large.
People who say that this or that online or brick-and-mortar college isn’t “accredited” and so is a “diploma mill” haven’t studied what passes for higher education these days.
Now, at the outset, let me again state that I run scams, am a scammer, and nothing I say can really be proved or denied effectively. Like believing that angels help you run your life. Can’t be either proved or disproved. What counts is the results you get from that belief. (And the difference between me and those who would call me a scammer is that I freely admit that I am – they can’t, even though they are just as much as I am.)
I deal in metaphysics, which is the sheerest gossamer of fabric to make a living at.
Practically, I also raise cattle – and you can see obviously what side of the fence a calf is on, just by looking.
But in the smoky halls of what is promoted as “higher” education, you are cautioned several times to disregard the man behind the curtain – who, when cornered and exposed, finally admits his “humbuggery”.
Let’s look at some stats and facts:
I. “Everyone knows” that the Ivy League organizations are the ones to graduate from, right?
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- Ask Bill Gates why he dropped out of Harvard.
- Ask Michael Dell or Larry Ellison why they dropped out.
- Or Warren Buffet how his degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln helped him become third-richest man in the world.
- Or go figure why Sam Walton made all his billions with a BS degree from University of Missouri?
II. And who is “accrediting” these school? A private set of organizations who derive their income from these same organizations. It’s simply a good old boy’s network, much like the BBB. Go along to get along. If you don’t pay your dues, you’re shunned.
I stayed the hell away from higher learning for much of my life after going through hell in high school and finding that it was just preparing us for four or more years of the same. That I’d be in debt up to my eyeballs when I finished and would know no more about how life really worked than I did already.
So I left and made my way across country several times, learning through hard knocks and hard-scrabble work.
I wound up in a big scam called Scientology, who issued me several dozen certificates which are worthless outside of their own sales funnel. But I learned more about life and how people actually worked by studying all sorts of cultures and mindsets, which I wouldn’t have had any other way.
Then I got out of it and went to college under the idea I needed some initials behind my name to “make money” in this world. I ended up getting 7 degrees in 7 years, studying every type and kind of educational process that 6 different training facilities had.
And wound up doing some of the toughest study on my own – analyzing analysis itself – and used that research to earn a PhD in Comparative Religions from one one of these “unaccredited universities” in Sedona.
A few years later, I was being dissed behind my back by some associates of mine I’d earlier worked with on the West Coast. While none of these had even bothered to try to get degrees of any type or kind, they were not-so-politely deriding my “diploma mill” very publicly in a forum for everyone to see.
My response was to tell them that it’s not what you got, it’s what you do with it. And they shut up.
That is the secret behind Gates, Dell, Ellison, Buffet, and Walton and their successes. They made money and their success in spite of their education or lack of it.
And so very many people do literally nothing with their degrees. I’ve worked right next to people with BA’s in factories and warehouses. Making just enough to get by – certainly not millionaires. And next to recently graduated “Bachelor of Fine Arts” who had never been trained on how to write a business plan or marketing plan to make a living from their artwork.
I mean, look at it like this: There you are all recently risen and outside the Pearly Gates, and where St. Peter is looking you up in his book – and he’s going to be impressed with all those degrees by your name? No – he wants to know what good you did for others.
Does the Golden Rule depend on having several Masters under your belt – no, it depend on how you invest your heart in others’ welfare.
I found all that education interesting. Because it was an experience in how people taught people, how we learn, and led me to get some data on how this universe actually fits together – but not from how they say it does.
But what’s the worth of all that paper? Exactly what I make of it.
Same for you. Join my free University for Scammers – and have all the success you want in life. Just as long as you first help everyone around you to get their own success. That’s the secret colleges and universities don’t and won’t teach you. It’s all smoke, mirrors, and old men behind curtains pulling levers and cords…
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