Sunday, February 22, 2009

Do You Have a College Degree Or Did You Get Your Knowledge Online?

Over the years, I have noticed and perhaps you have too, that many people that do not have college degrees feel lesser than those that do. They actually think that folks that have degrees from college are smarter? No, that is not actually the case, sure they might have crammed more information into that little head of theirs and might use their brains for different things than those that had not went to college, but that does not mean they are smarter.
Running a Think Tank is fairly interesting in that often applicants apologize for not having very many advanced degrees, as in PhDs, after all nearly everyone who is anyone has a master's degree right? Well, I don't and I wouldn't accept one if it were offered either. So, on the degree thing well;
No worries on the College Degrees, I think they may be over rated anyway. After all a 10-year old PhD isn't worth much when the world moves so fast and even after 10-years most folks still have their student loans they are paying on. By that time everything is on WikiPedia or you can read it yourself on Google Scholar tool bar feature.
In fact, I left college after just a 2-year degree myself. You can probably become a semi expert in just about anything within about 2-3 weeks of hardcore study on the Internet anyway. There are videos of professors, research papers, information, articles, you name it, most is all there. Think on this.