Business and government are not the same.
Few (if any) people use that standard to pick a candidate. So I expect his lack of a degree will cost him exactly zero votes. People choose based upon ideology first, likeability second.
No. The zippy pinhead academic Presidents have largely been a disaster with little clue about the real world.
Just like Bill Gates. It's a non starter. He's accomplished enough in his career to know that he can handle the job.
Gates is very much the exception.
Gates is very much the exception.
Business and government are not the same.
Its only relevant to people who were never going to vote for him anyway.
This man has a college degree and is in government.
How about Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Sheldon Adleson, John Makey and Matt Mulenweg. They didn't finish college either.
The curriculum for the degree is set by the faculty of the department (or higher up, too) to complete a prescribed course of study that satisfies their level of minimal study to show higher level education in that area.
Would you hire someone as mechanical engineer who never graduated with his degree and decided not to take statics and dynamics?
Further, would you say someone has a high school education if they dropped out after 9th grade? Of course not. "Has an education" _in "X" implies they took (and passed) the patently obvious and requisite courses to fully attain that education.
He took a bunch of college courses, but he didn't complete a degree. What field is he educated in specifically at a collegiate level?
In a lot of ways they are. And leadership qualities transcend the actual job. You can be a great leader in the private sector, in government, in the military, on the sports field, and in the neighborhood PTA. Or you can be a lousy leader.
Look, I'm not saying that you can't be wildly successful without a college degree. You can, but for every Bill Gates you serve up I can probably give you 100 counter examples. Non college educated wildly successful business people are the exception, not the rule.
Interestingly Gates, Zuckerberg, Dell and Mulenwag (as well arguably as Rockefeller and Ford) all made their mark in new industries. I wonder if that has something to do with their success.
I would say he has a doctorate in "political science". Everyone has taken him on and he keeps on winning against huge odds. Obama won twice in Wisconsin, a liberal state, yet Scott Walker cannot be defeated.
I think those of highly educated persuasion will find it hard to take orders from him.True. And there are few natural born leaders. It's something that has to be both taught and practiced.
And leadership in any case isn't the whole picture. A great leader with a bad vision is nothing more than another Titanic. A great leader, with a great vision who can't manage to execute on his vision is useless.
Our expectations and access to education have greatly changed during the seventy years since Truman first became president.Harry Truman never got a college degree. I wonder what position of power he could have risen to if he had.
LBJ had a degree in Education. He wanted to be a teacher.
A college degree, especially a Bachelor's Degree (which I happen to have) is about as useful in your working career as those ballet lessons your wife took when she was 4 are now in her life.
Academic institutions are never quick to assign value to real world experience.
Those of us with both a degree and experience, know the degree was just a
key to open the door.
We could look at it this like contact hours.
Bachelors: 120 credits which is about 1500 contact hours
Masters: 36 credits, about 500 contact hours
PhD: roughly 40 credits about 600 contact hours.
2600 contact hours, lecture and lab, triple for out of class study
7500 hours of exposure to the material for a PhD.
Scott Walker has been the Chief executive officer (Governor) for 4 years.
even if we assume a 40 hour week, that is 8320 hours of exposure to the
material.
Before that he was the Executive of Milwaukee County for 8 years.
That is another 16,640 hours of Executive experience.
I don't know much about Walker, but clearly possesses the decision
making skill set necessary to be an Executive.
Is it an issue for you. I like him, but that is a sticking point.
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I graduated from the same university Scooter attended. The scuttlebutt (gossip) I got from some teachers and professors is that he didn't necessarily leave by his own free will. The university is unusually tight lipped about it and Walker will not answer any questions as to why he left other than "personal reasons." The Walker family has always been wealthy and well placed politically so it would be unusual to hypothesize they worked with the university to keep everything about him, permanently sealed.
Absolutely. There is no question that Obama was more likeable than McCain and he ran as someone slightly left of center, but appealed to unity.Do you think that was the main factor in Obama's elections?
Absolutely. There is no question that Obama was more likeable than McCain and he ran as someone slightly left of center, but appealed to unity.
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