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Originally Posted by Ferus
Who the fuck told you that there was an education for anything, where you could just step out of college and know everything?
You learn a set of tools and processes to help you understand whatever niche of the trade you enter, when you leave college.
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Absolutely.
And I'd bet it would be difficult to point out even one marketing guy at the top of the game in the world who actually majored in "marketing" in college.
The truly creative types don't always waste their time in college being taught that what they do is "wrong".
Kinda reminds me of "GIT" (Guitar Institute Of Technology)
I first heard about them back in the early 1980's when I was in college. I wanted to go because it was in Los Angeles (and I was in Florida) and they had all these guys that could teach you to play all the coolest fastest sweeping techniques so you could play note for note like Yngwie Malmsteen and Frank Gambale (Gambale even taught there).
Funny thing is...guys like Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, etc., etc. NEVER went to any of those kinds of schools.
And I also NEVER heard any of the graduates of GIT becoming guitar legends.
They all just ended up in crappy hair bands in L.A. during the 1980's lol
You see my point?
Education is great. And I wouldn't discourage anyone from it. But just because you get a fancy degree doesn't make you GOOD at something. Or creative.
Those guitar players from GIT all came out with jaw-dropping technique and virtuosity. But could they write a good song? Could they touch people?
Meanwhile Keith Richards was shooting heroin, banging on an open tuned telecaster with only 5 strings and making history.