“Why doesn’t he just take the 5 courses and get the stupid degree to shut up the idiots.”
It is idiotic for a man to waste his time on 5 courses for no reason just so he can symbolically apologize to his enemies for not having done it previously.
A college degree is worthless to a man who has already succeeded in his trade.
A college degree is worthless to a man who has already succeeded in his trade.
As one of my professors at Georgia Tech said to the class back in 1966, "If and when you guys get out of here in four or five years with your degrees, you will not be engineers. You will be able to speak the language and will have proved that you can show up for class and can be taught. Once you get to your first real job, they will begin to teach you to be real engineers."
At the age of 50 I had an HR bureaucrat tell me I needed to go back to college and complete my degree before she could approve my being paid as a salaried employee rather than hourly. I had just been hired for a salaried position as a software programmer in a group within the engineering department. The man who hired me was a graduate of the Naval Academy and a former nuclear engineer on a ballistic missile sub. After I had worked for him for several years, one day he made the comment that I was a better engineer than half of the guys in the department who had their degrees. I was honored.
HR - "Bah Humbug!"