Anonymous

Augst 8, 2007

In regards to your many assorted articles on "academics", your point is well founded. I have both an MBA (fr Boston University financed by my employer) and have the CFA designation (Chartered Financial Analyst, supposedly important in my field of portfolio management). While both have shown me to be a hard charger, and the latter administered by market professionals, neither really served as academics or education. my real education has come from reading on my own (such as learning about Austrian Economics), and learning to trade bonds on the job.

The state of "education" and "academics" is abysmal. I am not clear why I had to endure an undergraduate degree, a graduate degree, then a professional designation, to find the job I wanted to do since in high school? What happened to "apprentices"? I know the answer, labor laws have wiped them out. It's a shame.