The Difference: Training a Doctor Vs Training a Lawyer

It takes at least 8 years and up to $250,000 in cash and/or loans to send a scholar to college to become a doctor. That scholar has to take up science, math, biology and other tough courses, in lab settings. And he or she has to spend long hours of study to pass them. And then take extremely tough licensing exams.

Since it is so tough, many who flunk out, or who decide they are not smart enough, try to join other professions or job categories with college degrees to boot. Such as investment advisers, or lawyers, and even community organizers.

You spend less time in school and work a tiny fraction as hard. In fact, up to the end of the Second World War you could take the Bar Exam without going to college. (Abe Lincoln never went to college.)

There are college graduates, and as they say, there are “college graduates.”