Is your partner having a college degree important to you?

Question

Do you think it's important to have educational compatibility along with everything else with your potential partner or does that not matter much or at all to you?

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

I'm 3 classes from having a degree, and I couldn't care less about getting the parchment - I went to college to LEARN, and I quit when I learned what I wanted to know.

Whether or not my girl has a degree means absolutely zero to me, ESPECIALLY given how college has become over the last 20 years. It's FAR more important to me that she knows how to THINK for herself and knows how to LEARN.

Today, we have the Internet at our fingertips. We can learn anything we want to learn, whether just reading, perhaps watching videos, or even taking classes or paying for one-on-one remote assistance/tutoring. College, to a large degree, has made learning worse instead of better. College was supposed to teach you HOW to learn, but has become a place that now tries to teach you WHAT TO THINK, and will absolutely attack any opposing ideas or points of view in many cases. That's the opposite of learning or thinking - that's indoctrination.

Besides, the huge number of useless degrees - and the experience with people having those degrees - has been teaching companies that they cannot rely on degrees to predict success. Yes, it's a slow learning process, but TONS of people with degrees, who had excellent-paying jobs in tech, have been let go in the last year, because they proved to be largely useless. And of the people who kept their jobs, you would be surprised at how many DON'T have degrees, though plenty of them do have them, of course.

I'll definitely take a girl who knows how to THINK over a parchment any day. If she has both, great, but the thinking part is 1000 times more important than the parchment.

bolverk · Accepted Answer

My partner having a degree would means nothing, as having a degree is no guarantee of intelligence, and more than a few today are not worth the paper they are written on,

I've worked with people who supposedly had degrees in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, but who were as dumb as a box of rocks and unable to do the simplest task in either discipline. Contra wise I have worked with people who spent no time in a college/university but were highly intelligent, well read and had no problem doing any job given them.

PetLover24 · Accepted Answer

Where I work most of our clients don't have education. It's a low income worker town where most people work in factories. Their ignorance & low intelligence is a massive nusiance to the boss because it handicaps how effectively we can provide services.

Travel 20 minutes to the neighboring town and most of our clients in a starting connected company are educated. Most work in jobs above no skills. You can have an intelligent conversation with them & their lack of ignorance doesn't handicap much.

Sooo to answer your question

I'd NEVER waste my time with someone who doesn't have a college education.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

No. It does not 100% guarantee success.  And I have met uneducated successful people.

AviatorTom · Answer

It's important but not a deal-breaker. There are other aspects of their personality that are more important than a sheepskin degree.

colaman94 · Answer

As I don't have one, the most I want my partner to have is either to have one or to have only a lower version. Different countries call them different things. Think after graduating high school, a short 1 or 2 year course (not degree) afterwards at like some university campus or university college for uhh like similar to there's trades there's manual labour, etc. 😆😂 That's basically what I sort of did and have. I'd like her to be similarly. I wouldn't want a college degree girlfriend neither a woman who didn't graduate high school as ordinarily as I did 👀🤭🎉

BourbonAndBacon · Answer

College degrees are useless unless you want to be an employee. I always wanted to own my own business and in my first year of university I realized that the professors had zero business experience and had nothing to offer me. I was learning more outside of university. I had business mentors to get me where I am. If I hire a new graduate I have to unlearn everything they've learned in school to teach them how business actually works. A college degree is useless to me. That being said, my partner went to university on academic scholarship and graduated with 2 degree but by her early 30s is burnt out and just wants to stay at home and take care of the house. I'm still proud of her for how smart she is and how hard she worked to get her degree. If that makes any sense

Anonymous · Answer

Let me start by saying I fully support anyone who pursues a degree. Statistically speaking you make more at every stage of life with one, than without one. Having said that I fully admit to not having finished college. It took me two years to learn that college wasn't right for ME. If I had it to do over again. I wished I hadn't spent 2 years. On tuition. Instead I could have been putting it towards what eventually became my business. I don't think education is EVER wasted.

Now as far as her. I judge people neither by income nor education and I loathe people who do. I don't care if she is a millionaire or makes minimum wage or long as she has a passion for whatever she does. Because life without passion is not a life worth living. I'm less concerned about where she's at, but where she's going and what she's doing to get there. Because we're all lifetime learners.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

No. But he has to be smart and a well balance individual. With ambition and goal/future aligned with me.
if he can’t keep up with me, he is out.
both my teen kids are very smart hard working on school…as a mom… I hate that they emphasize so much on these none-sense classes. I think they can be smarter when less educated. Get it?

NathanDavis · Answer

nope, not at all...

I don't even have one myself, lol... but all my partners happen to be college graduates, and they were on fields in which one is absolutely necessary...

personally, I would prefer if my surgeon or doctor (if/when needed) had a college degree and beyond... lol

menina · Answer

I have a degree but it's not important that my boyfriend (assuming that I had one) has it too. I know that we don't have all the same opportunities, so some people are unable to go to college. Besides, not everyone wants to go to college and that's also fine.

Anonymous · Answer

I have and advanced degree, but it's not important to me what her educational background is, so long as she's nice, fun and hot. Honestly anything close to average intelligence with the equivalent of a high school degree is sufficient. More education is cool and all, but it doesn't really make a girl substantially more attractive.

HOWEVER, the way the world is set up, if you do have a college degree it's more than likely that you end up in social circles where everyone else does too, so it's more likely that you'll end up with someone with a college degree just because that's what's available. That's kind of my situation. It's not that I seek it out in a girl--its just that most all the girls around me happen to have one.

Lara_Croft · Answer

God is Good. Education in whatever form is important. Not necessarily college degree. I have a Bachelor's and will have an MS in a few and I'm African so it's high stakes for my future husband. But, I take a lot of things into consideration- his relationship with Jesus being chief

JustinTheGreat · Answer

What’s important to me is having ambition. And that doesn’t necessarily mean having a college degree.
My husband did not go to college but he puts in hard work at his job and is always working toward getting new licenses and promotions.
He’s doing well for himself and that’s all that matters to me

sheikalana · Answer

I don't have a degree and I'm way more successful that all my friends who have a degree. My husband has a degree but that doesn't really matter to me. As long as you're ambitious, hard working have big dreams and a plan to achieve them I'm okay with it.

Unit1 · Answer

Not really. Degrees in general aren't that important. What matters more is how she makes her living and if having a degree is a key part to it, then so be it.

I believe that Making the real big money doesn't require any degrees. Its an ability we have to figure out for ourselves. Probably No one driving a Lamborghini or Ferrari has made it because of an academic degree.

DizzyDesii · Answer

My degree came across as pretty pointless since it wasn't something i was passionate about and didn't really further my career goals. I’d like the guy to at least have a high school diploma and trade school certificate

Screenwriter · Answer

I have several degrees and it's important that my partner cares about education. Having some exposure to the college experience is worthwhile, OR being an avid reader and self educated and wanting to be a lifelong learner.

Anonymous · Answer

College degrees are meaningless now. They are indoctrination degrees. I would rather have someone who just started their own business or something like that.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

There are some ''degrees'' that life gives us. These are just not printed on paper, or ''awarded'' by some authority.

My lady partner is welcome to benefit from my own 'degree' - as long as I benefit from her affection and loyalty :)

Anonymous · Answer

No. When it comes to selecting a partner most men don’t care about her education. At the same time I’d like someone who can at least hold a conversation. But I’d probably marry the cutie working at McDoanlds than the CEO of a company.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

I care about having interesting topics to talk about and paying bills. If he can cover it degree is not important.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Nope. I stopped my pursuit of one before my sophomore year because I was already making more for my business than the degree would get me.

madhatters4 · Answer

i don't think a college degree is necessary. more important is intelligence

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Well it is important but not like so important that i'm not going to marry her of she doesn't have one, cause sooner or later, after marriage she's going to become a devoted housewife 😌

Anonymous · Answer

It's important to me that we both be equally yoked in education. So yes he should have one too and he does.

jogeb907433 · Answer

Yes, in fact I would only have a long-term relationship with a woman with a better university degree than mine, such as medicine.

nastyb · Answer

Statistics show that divorce happens less when two people of equal education status.

Likes2drive · Answer

It’s not that important as long as they have a full-time job , I don’t have a degree but I get paid more than most college graduates

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

No, but having far above average comprehension skills is.

love_conquers_lust · Answer

Being a stimulating conversationalist is important to me. You might say I’m high maintenance.

RedInnocent68 · Answer

I said important, but it’s not really that relevant. I mean, she already has three…

DreamLife7 · Answer

Yes he needs an education. Unless he's some genius like elon musk and besos or gates. But even they went to college

Anonymous · Answer

depends on what their job is. if they're working at fast food, no thanks.

Anonymous · Answer

I have two degrees. What is important to me in a woman has nothnig to do with her education.

Anonymous · Answer

He doesn't need a degree to be educated or intelligent.

Nuget · Answer

No. Intelligence is established at birth.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

I personally don't care.

Anonymous · Answer

A college degree is a joke.

jimmy2 · Answer

Yes it can before but paying it off is a killer

Anonymous · Answer

Or apprentice? they can pay better

jahaims · Answer

Nope

Evelyn99 · Answer

Not really

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

No..

Anonymous · Answer

No it’s not

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