FIVE MINUTE UNIVERSITYI don't have too much respect for the college system as it is setup today. Probably what matters most in the college experience is the opportunity to make networking and keeping these relationships to assist in the productive years that are to follow. Reminds me of the priest's skit in the early days of Saturday Night Live ... I recall the Father Saducci's monologue, it went something like this:
If I were to open a college, I'd call it the - "Five Minute University" ... where in five minutes you learn what the average college graduate remembers after five years after graduation.
So you would take languages, and learn Spanish, and all you would have to know is how to say 'Como está?' (How are you?), and the answer is 'Muy bién.' (Very well.). If you took five years of Spanish, that's all you remember after graduation (no conjugating of verbs, no declensions of nouns; not important.).
In economics, all you have to know is: 'supply and demand' ... and in the five minute School of Business Administration you learn to say "buy low and sell high" and everyone knows you went to college. In my Theology Department, we will teach you how to ask that question ... 'Where is G-d?' ... and the answer, of course, is: 'G-d is everywhere."
Finally, our Law School will take another minute, you get the law degree by knowing how to say, 'I think we can sue' ... Now a medical degree will require more learning: 'Do you have insurance?' and 'How much?'" ... Five Minute University; think of the time you'll save.
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