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Re:A Guide for Adults Going to College by pooppaint on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:30PM (#18858744)
You are overgeneralizing. Also I quite enjoyed working with students about 14 years my junior, so that’s like just your opinion, man. (I also have a suspicion you’re much younger than me, which I find amusing).

> I don't think anyone needs a degree anymore to get to where they're going.

There are plenty of professions outside of tech where formalized education is held in the same regard as 100 years ago. The “times have changed” thing is very much a tech bubblethink. Good luck entering medicine or academia without a degree. There are outliers in these fields but that isn’t anything new.

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Re:A Guide for Adults Going to College by whatshisface on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:36PM (#18858807)
>Good luck entering [...] academia without a degree.

Given that a PhD is basically a training course on how to be a professor, I think that one might actually be fair. The harshest criticism of PhDs is that they are only vocational training for professors, even.

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Re:A Guide for Adults Going to College by _emacsomancer_ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:05PM (#18861948)
At least ideally, a PhD is a training course on how to do research professionally.
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