A solo Justin Timberlake was seen leaving a West Hollywood restaurant after dining with friends.
Dressed casually in a t-shirt and jeans, the pop crooner laughed off questions from the paparazzi over rumours he’s planning to pop the big question to gal pal Jessica Biel.
Meanwhile, JT says he is convinced he made the right decision not to attend university — because a college diploma might have stopped him from pursuing pop music.
He says, “I don’t (regret not going to college). If I had gone to college, I would never have seen the world. I don’t know that… if I would have went to college, I’d have ended up walking out with a degree. So it’s probably better that I didn’t try.”
Kids — ignore what the pop star with millions of dollars has to say. College is always a good thing. Period.
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Fucking moron! Way to go douche bag… promote not being educated.
Personally, I know many of a people that did not attend College and they make some damn good money.
I think it is an individual decision on pursing a college degree, and also it has a lot to do with “what you want to become when you grow up” In a lot of situations, you will need that overpriced piece of paper. But in others you don’t.
Thats what happens when you are a hillbilly from the mountainds of Tennesse. Cant reed so goud.
Hey Harley…Going to college is not soley for the purpose to earn a living. It is an opportunity to enlighten yourself. Obviously you are an elementry school drop out.
“…if I would have went to college” ….
Sounds like you could have used the extra ’skoolin’ there Justin.
Jack - -I see you will never change and on my ass again. Jesus Christ, give it a rest.
Grow up man, okay?
Life is the only opportunity to enlighten yourself, a College can not do that for you. College is there to teach you to enlighten whatever your studying to get a deeper understanding of that path that you have chosen.
Only life, and life situations and how you handle them; that alone is the “enlighten yourself” that you rant about.
And you wonder why our youth scores considerablly lower on aptitude test when compared to childern in third world countries. A very sad commentary. Way to go Justin…you dumb hillbilly.
Oh, I cant even respond to post number 7 without my ass getting jumped on like a flower with a bunch of Hummingbirds lined up to drink it!
(oh, the thoughts that the Government (States, and Cities) have pushed! The propaganda in not using a simple RED pen, because it makes the child sad! Lord, I could go on!)
Imagine that America had no system of post-secondary education, and you were a member of a task force assigned to create one from scratch. One of your colleagues submits this proposal:
First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach an economic reward to it that seldom has anything to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn’t meet the goal. We will call the goal a “BA.”
You would conclude that your colleague was cruel, not to say insane. But that’s the system we have in place.
Finding a better way should be easy. The BA acquired its current inflated status by accident. Advanced skills for people with brains really did get more valuable over the course of the 20th century, but the acquisition of those skills got conflated with the existing system of colleges, which had evolved the BA for completely different purposes.
Outside a handful of majors — engineering and some of the sciences — a bachelor’s degree tells an employer nothing except that the applicant has a certain amount of intellectual ability and perseverance. Even a degree in a vocational major like business administration can mean anything from a solid base of knowledge to four years of barely remembered gut courses.
The solution is not better degrees, but no degrees. Young people entering the job market should have a known, trusted measure of their qualifications they can carry into job interviews. That measure should express what they know, not where they learned it or how long it took them. They need a certification, not a degree…
Here’s the reality:
Everyone in every occupation starts as an apprentice. Those who are good enough become journeymen. The best become master craftsmen. This is as true of business executives and history professors as of chefs and welders. Getting rid of the BA and replacing it with evidence of competence — treating post-secondary education as apprenticeships for everyone — is one way to help us to recognize that common bond.
is there a kanye west article to supplement this one on the worthlessness of college degrees?
justin is not a good looking man, no matter what anyone says. and i have the feeling is not going to get better as he gets older…
Going to college and getting a degree doesn,t mean you’ll get a well paying job after words most are waiters or waitresses trying to pay off thier college loans he made a smart move by not going but on the other hand Justin was at the wright place at the wright time to to be successful
I recently graduated from rice university and got accepted into harvard med school, Ive visited 27 countries and Im not a pop star. I worked hard for my educational degree and my experiences in my 22 yrs of living and for someone to say that if he hadnt been a pop star he wouldnt have seen that world, well it makes me think of how arrogant he really is. There are some people in the world that actually work alot harder than he does without the perks of getting celebrity treatments. He shouldnt talk out loud unless he finds a cure for cancer.
Yo!…post#14….you have no Idea how much work it takes to be a pop star and then stay on top. Being a star means you pave the way and lean things yourself and accomplish this that other’s tell you are impossible. First you start working at it when your 8 years old then you need talent, be creative and have a good business sense. A college digree is just repeating what is already written by someone else…..at best most college grad’s are teachers….boring!!