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Sugar: Universities full of idiots
BillieTheBot
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Self-made businessman Sir Alan Sugar is a man who knows exactly how to stir things up. And he's done precisely that. In an episode of The Apprentice to be shown tomorrow night, Alexa Tilley, one of the team leaders and a Cambridge University graduate, had to run a pizza stall. They completely bombed at the task. Sir Alan was angry, and amidst all that described further education colleges and universities as [places] "where dummkopfs come to learn where to make mistakes" (To those who don't know, a "dummkopf" is another word for a stupid person or a dolt.)
Naturally, further education establishments have been outraged at the suggestion not everyone in university is very bright. Association of Colleges Chief executive Dr John Brennan has got his pen out, and notes "I can only assume those comments were made in ignorance of the reality of modern further education - and in particular of the real experiences of the four million students studying there... blah blah blah"... >> Details >>
The words "shameless publicity stunt" come to mind, don't they?
Naturally, further education establishments have been outraged at the suggestion not everyone in university is very bright. Association of Colleges Chief executive Dr John Brennan has got his pen out, and notes "I can only assume those comments were made in ignorance of the reality of modern further education - and in particular of the real experiences of the four million students studying there... blah blah blah"... >> Details >>
The words "shameless publicity stunt" come to mind, don't they?
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Surely you can find a better story to get angry about.
I don't think all people at uni are thick, but people on that show are up themselves.
Not Sir Alan Sugar's fault that most University graduates he has comin gto him for jobs have no real world experience.
This was on last weeks episode, research your facts properly.
In a business world, there is only so much a degree can teach you, a lot of it is experience. He is one of those people who has his head firmly up his own arse, only because he did well without a degree he of course will assume nobody needs a degree.
I mean I'd be tempted to go for it though if you get like a multipe thousand pund a year contract at the end. But if I did , I 'd go for it and do my best and doubt I'd even get on the show.
they think they deserve it for doing nothing coz they are so arrogant.
i'm not convinced you can teach people how to make money in a classroom setting.
Becoming rich is easy.
1) Spend less then you earn.
2) Turn your spare capital into 50% real goods that are inflation proof and invest the rest in your own skills.
3) Smile, be friendly.
Wait.
:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
Go Scarlett!!!
You are right!!!
100%!!!
Someone else who could do with raising that point with his surgeon or pharmacist.
Universities don't teach you how to make money. But that doesn't make the people there "stupid" and "idiots".
Some of us think that there's more to life than making money. University is something that is brilliant at broadening the mind, seeing new things, reading new things, learning about the world. I'm not saying all students do that, but the benefits of going to university go far beyond the balance sheet.
But then Alan Sugar is an idiot. His "business acumen" at Tottenham Hotspur was a delight to behold.
If you have people being trained in buisness, it's a fairly obvious point that they should be able to make money. That is after all, the point of business. How many doctors know no medicine?
Theres nothing like education that has no practical value and is paid for by theft is there?
But most people at uni aren't there to learn about making money.
Whose theft?
I paid for it.
Anyway, define "practical value". Not everything can be measured on the balance sheet.
Quite right, they are there to learn valuable skills they will use to make men like Sugar even richer.
Everyone who holds a pound.
All of it up front? :chin:
Yeah, everything can. Theres that blanket assumption you've made of only having one type of money ofc.
Practical value - something that someone somewhere will voluntarily trade something for.
The problem is that you can be academic and have no social skills, another problem is that some universities will let anyone in.
In my experience I am glad I went to university late knowing what my passion is and working in my year out as well as part time through my A levels gave me more confidence and better people skills... A lot of students will graduate knowing little more than to write papers and exams... I can't see that as making them very employable.
Never said it did. University obviously didn't do your comprehension skills too much good though, that's for sure.
You've obviously read the bit you deleted, so why fuck bother going to the effort of typing that out?
I didn't realise there was another way of reading "universities are full of idiots" apart from reading it as you saying that universities are full of idiots.
My mistake.
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The bit I deleted in the quote from your post was nonsensical drivel, to be quite honest.
"too many people". "degrees which play little role in developing their intellect". "the skills they'll need for future employment". All nice little soundbites that mean diddly squat.
If you would care to actually illustrate what it is you're on about, it'd be helpful.
Especially as there's a school of thought that actually places a lot of importance on HNDs such as golf course management...
so true....