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Xenon, v. 1, issue 1, March 1944
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Page eight XENON Fans Should Go To College By D. B. Thompson All fans should go to college. They should go to college because they can accomplich more in thirty-six months spent in college than in thirty-six months spend in any other way. I can hear some scoffers. "Present-day colleges are behind the times. Half the stuff they teach is owrthless; some of it actually negative." A college education isn't worth a dime. I know an Electorical Engineer who had worked all his life as a telephone lineman." "Going to college doesn't educate a man. The best-educated man I know never went past the eighth grade." Quite right, those statements, as far as they go; but they certainly don't go "a fur piece," as the saying is in the Deep South. Refusing to go to college because college isn't perfect is just plain stupidity. You don't refuse a steak smothered in mushrooms, just becaue your host hasn't provided spinach and yellow vegtables. The steak isn't a perfect meal, but is sure helps a lot. Similarly, a well-planned college course leading to a business, professional, or arts degree isn't perfect; but it is vastly superior to a hit-and-miss individual study program; and that in turn is vastly beyond what most non-college-goers over accomplish in the way of planned preparation for living and for earning a living. For all its i,perfections, college training is the quickest route to your goal. The Electrical Engineer who remained a telephone lineman did not fail through any fault of the college he attended. His lowly start may have been due to an over-supply of E. E.'s. And he didn't need his training to be a success- (to next page
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Page eight XENON Fans Should Go To College By D. B. Thompson All fans should go to college. They should go to college because they can accomplich more in thirty-six months spent in college than in thirty-six months spend in any other way. I can hear some scoffers. "Present-day colleges are behind the times. Half the stuff they teach is owrthless; some of it actually negative." A college education isn't worth a dime. I know an Electorical Engineer who had worked all his life as a telephone lineman." "Going to college doesn't educate a man. The best-educated man I know never went past the eighth grade." Quite right, those statements, as far as they go; but they certainly don't go "a fur piece," as the saying is in the Deep South. Refusing to go to college because college isn't perfect is just plain stupidity. You don't refuse a steak smothered in mushrooms, just becaue your host hasn't provided spinach and yellow vegtables. The steak isn't a perfect meal, but is sure helps a lot. Similarly, a well-planned college course leading to a business, professional, or arts degree isn't perfect; but it is vastly superior to a hit-and-miss individual study program; and that in turn is vastly beyond what most non-college-goers over accomplish in the way of planned preparation for living and for earning a living. For all its i,perfections, college training is the quickest route to your goal. The Electrical Engineer who remained a telephone lineman did not fail through any fault of the college he attended. His lowly start may have been due to an over-supply of E. E.'s. And he didn't need his training to be a success- (to next page
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