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GreatEvilEmpire posted...

You can learn by reading. Most of those 'degrees' are nothing but hobbies.

Philosophy, Gender Studies, Lesbian Studies, Art History, Parapsychology and David Beckham Studies can all be learned just be doing some research and or reading.

To spend a $100k on it and have little practicality in the real world, that's what you call wasted money.

Okay, what you just said is something I have a huge problem with.

It's REALLY arrogant to think someone can pick up books on a subject and become as erudite as a PhD holder in those fields. People who say this have usually never been judged by a master of that field.

What education does is create standards to a subject. We say who in those fields has demonstrated competencies and then they are qualified in that field.

If everyone just read on something, there would be many different opinions on the same work and more than half of them would be pretty off the mark.
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