How a Journalist Can Really be Educated

As a followup to the post about how serving in the military can develop a bullshit detector—something ever more needed in journalism— another way to get smart about the world comes from the late, great Marquette basketball coach Al McGuire:

“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”

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