Would you marry a high school drop out?

[peace-love-couture]

Would you marry someone who dropped out of high school? What if they got their GED?

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I thumbed everyone up btw

[tadpole25]

Honestly, the whole notion that a person needs to have an academic education to be successful or intelligent is not necessarily true all of the time.

There are people who are self-educated, and very intelligent because they have the hunger of knowledge to learn for themselves and inquire on what interests them without being instructed to, and they learn for their own pleasure and curiosity - not for an assignment. I want a woman who can read between the lines and think outside of the box, and those are both qualities people can learn on their own.

As for finances, if she has a good job and is stable, has good work ethic and has proven herself to be a valuable asset to whereever she works, that completely fine.

Do you know how many people go to college and major in something that isn't in demand, and then they work at Starbucks anyway? And there are people who go to college who rotely memorize information for tests, but never learn beyond the superficial.

Why would I EVER think that that kind of person is inferior to a person who hasn't had the priviledge to go to college, but yet still made something of themselves.

That said, if I were to marry someone, I would want her to be both intelligent and financially stable, whether she has a college degree or not.

[MrOracle]

The fact that they dropped out of school and/or got their GED would, in itself, be irrelevant to me. But if they were the stereotypical problem-child that is usually in that group, I probably wouldn't be attracted to them due to those other issues of attitude and personality.

If they were one of those exceptions, who had some issue come up that prevented them from graduating, but eventually got their GED and worked through it, I'm sure it would be fine.

[MaskofInsanity]

Don't care. He doesn't need a diploma to get along with me. So long as we have chemistry and can have intelligent conversations, it's all good. Dropping out =/ having no ambition or being unintelligent. There are a lot of factors that could make someone leave high school early.

[XRabbitHeartX]

No I wouldn't. Ambition to me is VERY important and someone who actually had the guts to say nah I'm not doing high school won't really fit the bill for me. That shows what they think of education and how highly they value it..

[pr3ttybr0wn]

I wouldn't even date them.i'm out of their league, they should probably look for a fellow hs drop out because I'm too educated and ambitious for them

[rudy37lee]

GED is equivalent to HS diploma. people drop out for all sorts of reasons, assuming it was from lack of ambition isn't very practical. I might also add that more education does not mean more intelligent.

[pr3ttybr0wn]

I don't care,I would not date him.people who don't value education are not my type.

[HannahC]

lol I've never seen 15 downvotes before :O

[PrincessHarry]

"people who don't value education are not my type."

LOL says the girl who adores "intelligent" rihanna.

[peace-love-couture]

Shut up Billy lolol

[pr3ttybr0wn]

Apparently you can't have standards on this site.next question's gonna be "would you date a toothless homeless drug addict?", and the girl who says no will be full of down votes, while every other answer is like "yeah if he had a good heart"lmao

[PrincessHarry]

someone who adores rihanna shouldn't talk about standards, intelligence and education. seriously, how old are you? 15? rihanna has a low iq, she's not educated at all. at least she's "hard":

"That I-I-I-I'm so hard. Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so hard. Too hard, too hard, too hard, too hard. (Ah yeah, yeah, yeah) That Rihanna rain just won't let up"

LOL shameful lyrics... most high school drop outs are too educated for her/intellectually superior to her.

[pr3ttybr0wn]

She's in my avi because she's hot. Find something else to talk about because you have no point , you're just looking for an argument, and you know I'm right.

You shouldn't be putting on your superhero cape trying to defend all of the uneducated ne'er-do-Wells of society. Don't expect someone in college to want to date someone who didn't even have the motivation to finish the 12 th grade.

[PrincessHarry]

LOL I have no point? read my answer. most billionaires are school drop outs... how come? I guess billionaires are dumb/uneducated/out of your league, right?

the fact you compare "toothless homeless drug addicts" to school drop outs proves you have no point. look sweetie, you don't need to go to school/college in order to become successful. being intelligent + being able to work hard is much more important.

[PrincessHarry]

by the way, rihanna is NOT hot. are you blind? look at her big nose and her huuuuge forehead. eww. she's pretty ugly to be honest.

[pr3ttybr0wn]

Most hs drop outs never do anything with their lives.stop talking about the .05% and talk about reality.the vast majority of them are not and will never be billionaires and they are unsuccessful. You know it,I know it, we all know it.

[peace-love-couture]

PrincessHarry says to unblock him...

[pr3ttybr0wn]

I'm not trying to hear his bullsh*t LOL he can go bye bye. I'm done talking to him.

[jokersgirl]

conceited much?!

[pr3ttybr0wn]

Not conceited, I just know my worth.something a lot of you girls might want to try. I'm sick of seeing all these people on here acting like having basic standards is so unreasonable, like some of you are happy to have any man who has a pulse lol. I'd rather be conceited than desperate.

[PrincessHarry]

as long as she is intelligent and hot, sure.

"How does it sound to your ears that most of the world’s richest men and women were school drop outs? Well don’t be surprised; it’s the truth."

"Thomas Edison: Thomas Edison was labeled dumb and scatterbrain by his school teachers (<--- LOL) but he went on to become one of the world’s greatest inventors and founded General Electric; one of the most powerful companies in the world."

"Li Ka Shing: Billionaire owner of Hutchinson Whampoa; one of the largest conglomerates in Hong Kong, with operations that span over fifty countries and more than 220,000 staff worldwide. Dropped out of school at the age of 15 and started out by selling watch bands."

"Richard Branson: Best known for his adventurous spirit and outrageous business tactics. He dropped out of school at the age of 16 to start his first successful business venture; Student Magazine, bought his own 79-acre Caribbean island when he was just 24 and he was knighted in 1999. He is the billionaire founder of the Virgin brand and its 360 companies."

and so on...

[peace-love-couture]

Those are far and few in between

[PrincessHarry]

nope, I could go on forever. MOST billionaires dropped out of school. it's a fact.

"Henry Ford was born in abject poverty. He never saw the four walls of school but he went on to build Ford Motor Company and become one of the richest men that ever lived...

Andrew Carnegie: Founder of Carnegie Steel Company/billionaire. Born in abject poverty, he never to school...

Walt Disney dropped out of high school at 16."

[peace-love-couture]

Most high school drop outs aren't billionaires

[PrincessHarry]

right, lol, but that doesn't change the fact that there are many more "drop out billionaires". why is that, huh? you don't need to go to school/college in order to become successful. being intelligent + being able to work hard is much more important.

[WeaponZero]

Nothing on anyone else you mentioned I know, but Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, was a high school dropout.

[pr3ttybr0wn]

Too bad this doesn't apply to most people who drop out of high school. High school drop outs who are even marginally successful are few and far between.your average drop out is part of the working poor or underclass, and this is because they placed themselves there due to their own foolish actions. Plainly put, they are LOSERS.

[peace-love-couture]

I never said there were, but that list doesn't change the fact that not all high school drop outs are billionaires, geniuses, have the right connections, money or ambition. I know quite a few drop outs who did so because they had to tend to their kids

[PrincessHarry]

never said all of them were geniuses, billionaires and so on..

the list proves that college dropouts aren't necessarily losers. "prettybrown" thinks she's better than every single one of them... that's ridiculous. a lot of dropouts are superior to her (in every way, especially intellectually LMAO). the fact she thinks she's out of their league amuses me. what a joke :D

facepalm @ COWARD prettybrown.

[guy532]

The thing is though that the majority (not saying all, but 99%) of dropouts don't bother learning those different subjects. I have yet to meet a high school drop out that I have really connected with. Also, going to college is an EXPERIENCE, most of the things you learn take place outside of the classroom and you just cannot attain those experiences anywhere else. Most drop outs drop out because they don't think education is important, which I completely disagree with.

[PrincessHarry]

99 percent of dropouts don't bother learning different subjects? assumptions aren't facts. nobody denies that education is important. many highly intelligent (example: bill gates) people feel unchallenged in the classroom -> they educate themselves.

"most of the things you learn take place outside of the classroom and you just cannot attain those experiences anywhere else"

many things you learn take place outside of the classroom, right. OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM = you just proved my point.

[Anonymous]

link

List of extremely successful HS dropouts. I'm sure there is a much longer list of unsuccessful of college graduates. We live in a society that is degree oriented. That if you don't have some sort of degree you are labeled as either a loser or a low-life. It's a sad stigma we have that shouldn't exist. Getting formal education can help, but it's not everything. Especially with today's technology. So many people can learn much more by researching on the internet on their own time than what the school system has in place for one to learn. It would depend what kind of life they have going for them now than what they decided to do in the past. I'd rather date a girl that does her own thing, learns from an objective point of view than to be one of those girls that are basically brainwash and just learn what society tells them to learn . . . and act the way society tells them how to act.

So, would I marry a girl that was a HS dropout. Well, as long as the marriage laws change then yes I would. I'm not into marriage. To me, as long as I can find a girl that I can spend the rest of my life with, then I'll be good. I don't need to get married in order for that to happen.

[PrincessHarry]

@ evangelina: COWARD "prettybrown" blocked me. blocking equals admitting defeat. tell her to unblock me. thanks.

@ COWARD: only a few billionaires (maybe 3 - 5 percent) have a college degree. what does that tell you? right, being a school dropout doesn't equal being lazy/dumb/uneducated. just because there are a lot of lazy "dropout bums" out there, it doesn't mean every "dropout" is a lazy loser. stop generalizing.

check out anonymous guy's "List of extremely successful HS dropouts". right, they're successful. how come?

ah, I forgot, they're nothing but toothless bums... you're right. LOL

[thoughtful]

You need to chill, keyboard warrior.

[PrincessHarry]

LMFAO chill? how old are you? 15? come on, teach me how to "chill", "gangsta".

keyboard warrior? you're hilarious. it's called debating. I'm not even aggressive... the fact I weaken "prettybrown's" arguments shows I'm an internet warrior, right? LOL what a thoughtful guy you are.

[Anonymous]

Depends on WHY they dropped out, and what they have done since then.

Literally EVERY person I know who dropped out either had a kid or was doing or dealing drugs.

I don't think I would marry someone with kids, and I don't do drugs, so that's a problem for me.

[bibmichael1]

if I was in love with her yes I would marry a high school drop out. any way I just have a high school diploma I was married to a women with a masters degree and I was treated like a loser. she alway look down on me and NO problum letting me know she was smarter then me. she would introduce as her stupied hafe to her friends coworkers. I will never get in to a realtionship with some one smarter then me agine I would like some one with equal or lesser education then me.

[sundrop28]

How did you even stand to be with her?...let alone marry her?

[bibmichael1]

it was not easy I married her for the wrong reasions I thought no one ealse would and was very lonley were divorced I don't think ill ever meet any one agine and still very lonley

[sammay]

In all honesty, I really don't care if they never finished high school or not. It's about their personality, whether or not they're able to make me happy and if they have a goal and ambition to strive towards.

Having a personal goal and a way to support yourself are important things because it makes us constantly want to improve and better ourselves over the long term.

Just my opinion :)

[Cryostatic]

My girlfriend of several years dropped out of school and does not have her GED. However, she's also managed to somehow work around that to become successful at her chosen profession. I have a college degree, and she's only earning slightly less where she works.

I suppose it helps that nobody ever bothers to actually check and see whether someone has their GED or not when they say they do on their job application.

[Cryostatic]

That being said, if she was a lazy bum when I met her, I probably wouldn't have been attracted to her in the first place. The fact that she's managed to form a career without having completed high school pretty much negates the idea of her being a freeloader.

[thoughtful]

Never. That's how natural selection works. Even just a bachelor's degree isn't good enough to get with me.

[PrincessHarry]

good for you. what's your job, mister thoughtful? do you "chill" on a regular basis?

[PrincessHarry]

bill gates doesn't even have a bachelor's degree. he is intellectually inferior to you. obviously.

LMAO.

[Nicci]

It's one of the least important things to me, so yes.

[NoOneListens21]

I guess it depends on their circumstances and how compatiable we were

[kdizzleforizzle91]

I understand people make some bad decisions in life, usually due to being immature, inexperienced, or something else. If the guy at least went back later or got his GED so that he could move forward, then I'd be fine with it.

[bel42]

I don't think I would. I want to be with someone who is ambitious and smart.

[RedSmartie]

Only if they got their GED and went to college after.

[WeaponZero]

Assuming they at least got their GED, yes. You can go to college and pursue postsecondary education with a GED rather than a diploma just the same.

[Betwyn]

Nope.

But it has nothing to do with him being a drop out.

[Anonymous]

I guess it would depend on why she dropped out. It's not a big deal to me though. As long as she isn't a moron

[Anonymous]

GED stands for Good Enough Degree. I wouldn't care. Don't need a high school diploma to cook and vacuum.

[Xx_DRE_xX]

I have no problem with it if she's doing something with her life.

[mashura]

If he has a really good job and still has drive and ambition. Then yes I would.

[Anonymous]

I mean if he was doing better things with his life after dropping out sure, if not then no.