MAN'S TRUE WORTH IS FROM BIRTH
Personal worth is not measured by college degrees. As humans, we are endowed by our actuator and Creator with limitless potential in this sphere, and in this phase of being, on earth.
First, a disclaimer : I have two college degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Print Journalism, and a Juris Doctor degree both from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in '73 and '76.
That said, until late in the 19th century, neither journalism nor law, required any college at all. One simply apprenticed on-the-job with mavens already in the field until one acquired proficiency. Afterwards, one passed an oral examination in front of a judge and other lawyers, for one's law license, or one was given a job as a journalist or launched one's own publication. The same held true for other fields whether teaching, preaching, or becoming a physician.
While there were colleges and universities for centuries, their use was optional. Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest writer in the English language, did not attend college; neither did Dumas perhaps the greatest writer in the French language; nor did Pushkin the founder of Russian literature.
While there are war colleges today, neither Toussaint L'Overture nor Jean Jacques Dessalines, who combined to defeat Napoleon's troops attended one, in route to liberating Haiti from France's slavery and duplicitousness.
Jesus of Nazareth had no college degree. Yet his words, that were recalled and written many decades after his death; indeed some words, after centuries of Roman oppression and persecution, are "Gospel," the good news, to the Christian world.
The Apostle Paul, on the other hand, who some say wrote many books of the New Testament, was formally educated under Gamaliel, a leading doctor of laws of their day. But, all that Paul later wrote was in glorious exposition and exultation of the humble man from Galilee, Jesus the Christ, who changed Saul to "Paul!"
My point is that college, though wonderful and preferable, is not essential to one's self-actualization.
One can get along without it, if one is willing to envision a specific end and to apply one's God-given gifts to work toward that end's realization.
God's innate gift that enables mankind's special capacity has long been known, intuitively, and has long been worshiped openly. That knowledge was later recorded, educed, preserved, promulgated, as prior proof, evidence for the benefit of later generations attending colleges, temples, mosques, and cathedrals.
To reiterate, the gift is innate. College is a powerful accessory, but into and of itself, it imparts no more than a prima facie societal badge of worth. Man's true worth is his from birth!
Personal worth is not measured by college degrees. As humans, we are endowed by our actuator and Creator with limitless potential in this sphere, and in this phase of being, on earth.
First, a disclaimer : I have two college degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Print Journalism, and a Juris Doctor degree both from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in '73 and '76.
That said, until late in the 19th century, neither journalism nor law, required any college at all. One simply apprenticed on-the-job with mavens already in the field until one acquired proficiency. Afterwards, one passed an oral examination in front of a judge and other lawyers, for one's law license, or one was given a job as a journalist or launched one's own publication. The same held true for other fields whether teaching, preaching, or becoming a physician.
While there were colleges and universities for centuries, their use was optional. Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest writer in the English language, did not attend college; neither did Dumas perhaps the greatest writer in the French language; nor did Pushkin the founder of Russian literature.
While there are war colleges today, neither Toussaint L'Overture nor Jean Jacques Dessalines, who combined to defeat Napoleon's troops attended one, in route to liberating Haiti from France's slavery and duplicitousness.
Jesus of Nazareth had no college degree. Yet his words, that were recalled and written many decades after his death; indeed some words, after centuries of Roman oppression and persecution, are "Gospel," the good news, to the Christian world.
The Apostle Paul, on the other hand, who some say wrote many books of the New Testament, was formally educated under Gamaliel, a leading doctor of laws of their day. But, all that Paul later wrote was in glorious exposition and exultation of the humble man from Galilee, Jesus the Christ, who changed Saul to "Paul!"
My point is that college, though wonderful and preferable, is not essential to one's self-actualization.
One can get along without it, if one is willing to envision a specific end and to apply one's God-given gifts to work toward that end's realization.
God's innate gift that enables mankind's special capacity has long been known, intuitively, and has long been worshiped openly. That knowledge was later recorded, educed, preserved, promulgated, as prior proof, evidence for the benefit of later generations attending colleges, temples, mosques, and cathedrals.
To reiterate, the gift is innate. College is a powerful accessory, but into and of itself, it imparts no more than a prima facie societal badge of worth. Man's true worth is his from birth!