Also I have found the best instructors are usually people who have excelled in their field. They have nothing to prove. I mean I got more good tips on guitar from GE Smith than the people I used to pay big bucks for lessons in some music shop. I find the little people have big egos and in many cases are stroking their ego more than they are teaching. This is true in education as well. We often don't get the best, we get a beurocrat playing the system.

My best instructors in college were guys who worked in the corporate world and then bored of retirement. These were the type of people who liked to teach, liked younger people and wanted to give something back. Most didn't have PHD's and frankly in business, a PHD is pretty useless. It may be different in a scientific field. I found the college system as far as business goes didn't provide the best instructors. It was more of a initiation process more than anything and this is the problem with higher education, it's an initiation more than learning.

School is getting expensive. I used to be you could pick an area of study you were interested in, get a 3.0 or above GPA and qualify for numerous mid management jobs. When I started college very few people working were working in what they studied in college. It was the stepping stone to corporate mid-management jobs.

Now you can spend a lot of money on a degree and be paying it off for a long-time. I mean people are getting saddled with a lot of debt just to get a bachelor's degree. It's become a racket of price gouging just like health care has become.

Actually with technology we could reduce the cost of education and raise the quality of it. I do this with my music lessons. I learn from the best for less because they are available on web sites. I mean I learned how to play bass from Jack Casady. I like his style of playing and he teaches over the internet. I then went to Ohio and had a session with him in person. I mean I learned a lot of great stuff from a professional who's been doing it for 50 years and is a legend in his field for not much money. That was impossible a few years ago.

We are going no where because we are stuck on the old cliches. Look at my college experience, yeah I got a degree in finance with a 3.8 GPA. It got me some jobs. Looking back at the whole experience is was the social aspect of it that was the best. I pretty much got into college at the end of the traditional school thing that has priced itself away. I can remember I got full on medical and dental coverage for $30 a semester and the deductable was $20.

I remember hearing about an old Carson show where he had jane Mansfield on she had a cat in her lap asked Jonhnny if he wanted to pet her pussy & he answered "move the cat"

Is Carson still alive? We really did see & hjave the best of everything, the was an old Adam 12 on "gangs with chains & knives" The world is a differant place today.


I'm already sweating the end of the school year coming up the gig I have with the teach grants is really paying off.I hope I can do it again next september.Took D to an open house at a college she wants to go to today.

If she goes on to grad school thats $4500 per quarter for 18 months then if she qwants a PHD that's 30 months

This new Teach Grant thing I'm doing has teachers lined up to get a MS or PHD, shit teach five more years in title one & ya got $60K in education grants

Nothing is more cool than booze, smoke, and jazz musicians.

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Bob and Johnny were stealing swigs of Dean's beer. Like a bunch of high school kids. LOL!

The stars in those days actually seemed like they were friends. Now it seems like they don't do anything without consulting their publicist and lawyer. The old Tonight Show was like Johnny's living room full of funny people just having a blast. Johnny ran the party but knew to stay out of it. Now the host is shouting down everyone trying to impress everyone. It gets old.

I was just telling Shelli the other night, that the thing I miss about Late Night shows is that guests used to stay for the whole show. In the Johnny Carson era, you could get to see stars like Bob Hope and Dean Martin share the couch and they'd have a great time. Now the guest does their spot and after the commercial break, they're gone.

This clips shows Dean chain smoking, and stars would be too afraid of the backlash to do that now. Bob Hope lived a long time, second hand smoke couldn't have been all that bad.

Speaking of Bop Hope. I watched this not too long ago. Back in the good old days when you could come on the Tonight Show with a beer and a cigarette.

You predicted the disaster. My grandmother had the same old foot operated sewing machine that's in the last picture.

The hillsides are soaked and like clockwork, the areas previously rendered bare by fires are now the scene of vicious mudslides here in Cali. This time it's La Canada / Flintridge area. I think thats the neighborhood Bob Hope lived in.

Most of these college graduates couldn't boot strap a business to save their lives and that's the real difference. These people are going to be owned by the banks their whole lives and have no equity in anything.

It's all about equity. Without that you are just a slave. You aren't going to have any retirement when you have interest bearing loans to pay. So much for the American Dream.

Almost everything seems to be a scam anymore.

For the most part, attending a university is a networking and job placement thing but we are graduating too many people for the available jobs now. People now are getting into debt to get more degrees and in a realistic sense it's supply and demand. The market doesn't care how many degrees you have when the jobs you are going after don't exist.

So the old rules don't apply. The people that will make it are the ones who can think out of the old box, make the most of limited resources, and provide something of value that people desire, need, but still can afford.

This business of getting into thousands of dollars of debt to play the outdated game is pretty foolish.

I got done reading a interview with Ivanka Trump on the current real estate situation and she struck me as being very intelligent and more than just being The Donald's daughter.

I agree with her on education.

The Mayor of LA is laying off 1000 City workers today. That'll add a few more foreclosures to the list. Next up will the few thousand LA School district teachers. More educated and overeducated adults moving back in with mom and dad. And it wont be easy finding a decent paying job. Nothing out there but 3 -6 month hourly contract jobs, sales jobs and scrambling to get a few days of substitute teacher jobs each month. And plenty of the young teachers are in debt for their education, cars and spendy lifestyles.

The garage sales this summer should be some of the best in years.

One of the biggest rackets in education in the proliferation of the online degree. People are paying 70k to get bachelors degrees and 30 more for the masters. And seriously does anyone think that a stay at home college plan is as rigorous as a real university education?

My frustration is the US is losing it's entreprenurial drive. In this sense I think our educational systems have been hijacked. If you crack down where the influence of universities comes from a lot of money comes from foundational grants and those foundations or owners of those foundations own the textbook companies, influence the teachers unions ect...

Plus, it's all encompassed by an end justifies the means greed disease. The hallowed halls of education have now become a cess pool of indocrination, greed, manipulation, and debt. While our industry has been monopolized the gateway to work in that industry is education which has also been monopolized.

In the end it's all about taking your freedom away to get a job. They want to have you in debt for the rest of your life and under the thumb of the corporations and government.

The model they hate is self-sufficient innovation, no debt, making something out of nothing, and freedom of thought. The universities have gone fascist and now get people in a lot of debt to suck a nipple of a fascist corporate cabal that screws everyone with monopoly pricing or sells slave goods.

People need to wake up.

My dumb nieces husband quit an accounting job to go to dental school. He is living well off of grant money, welfare, and student loans. He never has worked a real job in his life other than being a tax collector for the state. He went right from high school to college to one real job back to school.

He's going to get a rude awakening if he manages to get out of school because work begins at 8:00AM and if he owns his own practice, the overhead is calling and the patients stiff you. Good fucking luck!