Liza: >Well, I sure am glad SOMEBODY spoke up! :) I was beginning to think >that maybe there wasn't anybody on this list that had good feelings >about their college education!! I think it depends on the field. I figure I'd be a better teacher if I had not gone to college. It sucked but I got to watch a lot of movies working at the campus theatres. Indeed, I took a little class every semester for years just to be able to use the pool on campus...;) >I know plenty of people that would give their EYE TEETH to be >able to go to college - to have access to all that information, all >the books, all that thinking of those who have gone before us! And >the opportunity to be around people who care about what you care >about, and have a respect >for scholarship, and research, and critical thinking. What can I >say, it sure seems like a great thing to me!! :) It can be little more than a commodity these days with the government licesnsing for nearly everything. I was quite bummed by college. I thought finally here would be some smart people but they weren't. I guess they were all in the physics department. ;) Cheers, Kirt Secola /\ Nieft [log in to unmask]