If you’re currently moving into your dorm, or scribbling away at that PhD dissertation, congratulations. The university years can be enlightening and stimulating, and we hope that is your experience.
And if your goal is to become a doctor, attorney, chemist, engineer, professor, or talking head on MSNBC, pursuing a university degree (or two or three) makes sense.
For some, however, university represents tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars out the door… and four or more years that they could have spent in a more direct pursuit of practical knowledge.
And for many of us, the university years are far in the past. However, we have the itch to keep on learning.
Our team decided to examine two questions for this Monthly Letter: Outside the normal ‘need’ for a degree, what makes a university education worth pursuing?
And regardless of whether you’re considering school, in school, or out of school… what are the specific skills that we think will prove both necessary and enduring?
We explore the answers to both in this month’s issue.
Seeking Higher… Something we are proud of as a publication is that Sovereign Man readers are, on the whole, lifelong learners. Whether young students on the cusp of formative education, mid-career professionals, or retirees, our audience consists of people constantly seeking to improve and learn new skills and ideas. Which got us thinking… we’re in…
