What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[Woodinblack]

My dad was against us going to university, not to the point of forbidding us to go, but just that we should be out working, so we both went out to work at 16.I went to the Open University later on

[RhythmJunky]

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

My dad was against us going to university, not to the point of forbidding us to go, but just that we should be out working, so we both went out to work at 16.I went to the Open University later on

 

Whenever I used to interview people I always used to respect someone with an OU degree higher than from a 'bricks and mortar' place as I recognised how much they must have actually wanted the degree.

 

I do have to admit some bias though. I did an MBA with the OU when I was doing a job with a huge amount of travel (some years up to 80 % of my life was in a hotel room). 

[Stub Mandrel]

6 hours ago, RhythmJunky said:

 

Whenever I used to interview people I always used to respect someone with an OU degree higher than from a 'bricks and mortar' place as I recognised how much they must have actually wanted the degree.

 

I do have to admit some bias though. I did an MBA with the OU when I was doing a job with a huge amount of travel (some years up to 80 % of my life was in a hotel room). 

 

I always found people who had decided to leave work and go to uni as mature students were excellent as they had passion and determination as well as having taken their study really seriously. 

[RhythmJunky]

24 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I always found people who had decided to leave work and go to uni as mature students were excellent as they had passion and determination as well as having taken their study really seriously. 

 

Yup. Same here.

 

Education (and youth in general) is wasted on the young. 

[SteveXFR]

Education didn't really work for me when I was young. I failed just about every GCSE but then blagged my way in yo an apprenticeship and managed to achieve a distinction in every subject at college while my mates got drunk at lunch time and smoked weed and chatted up the hair and beauty girls. I also managed a grade A in A level maths in my 30's after getting a D in my GCSE.

There's probably no single education plan to suit everyone and I don't think intelligence should ever be judged based on qualifications. 

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I always found people who had decided to leave work and go to uni as mature students were excellent as they had passion and determination as well as having taken their study really seriously. 

 

There is a lot more focus on the education when you are paying for it yourself thats for sure!