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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
I agree. I always feel like people who don't have a degree are always trying to lowball my education by saying their X amount of experience is worth more. And, people always treat the two as if they're mutually exclusive. Throughout my education I've held several different jobs and internships, both providing me with valuable experience relevant to my field of study, which has killed two birds with one stone. That's worth more than "life experience," as you said.
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Yep I also worked all my way through university. I also took a year off and worked for half of it and then spent the other half travelling around Sth America. During my time at university I became the president of a human rights group and was a leader in the mountaineering club. Really don't believe I could have got any better life experiences by not going onto tertiary education.
The main thing about getting a degree in my opinion is that you really have to learn how to learn. Unlike secondary education where a lot is practically spoonfed to you by the teachers, in tertiary education you're basically on your own. You really do learn how to gather information and learn from it. Later in my professional life where I had to do training for various jobs I've done I noticed that I was able to breeze through the training, taking on the knowledge required much quicker and easier than those who did not have a degree. Those without degrees just weren't as used to studying and taking in information. Degrees often won't give you any direct on the job experience but they will give you the ability to get up to speed pretty damned quickly.
I think having a degree as a minimum standard of education is a very good rule. You got to have some sort of minimum standard of education don't you? A degree isn't that hard to achieve. Now if they ramped it up to only accept those with a Masters or PHD that might be a bit overboard.