Originally Posted by
cfimechanic
I agree, without collage how would we have gotten fine airmen like Chuck Yeager, Bob Hoover, Wright Brothers, and Eddie Rickenbacker....................................
The idea that Collage is the only place to get an education is a very obtuse mentality. Rickenbacker never even made it to highschool.
A different century. College is readily available to almost anyone, and anyone who is airline pilot material can pull it off.
If you choose not to, you'll have to swim upstream. At a job interview you'll need to come up with a plausible reason for not going to college. Here are two answers I have heard to that question.
"I don't have time to listen to what a bunch of academics think"
"I don't know why any pilot would waste his time with college"
Just in case it's not obvious... those were the wrong answers.