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Since you disparage my education, let me tell you something about myself.

Before you were born:
I had graduated from college with a BA in Poli Sci and a minor in geology.
Soldiered in Korea.
Had two and a half years of graduate training at the East Asian Institute at Columbia U.
Worked two years as a translator through a CIA grant abstracting Chinese, Japanese and Korean scientific articles.
Save up half enough for further education in science.

When you were still in Kindergarten:
I had sailed a boat from D. C. to the Florida Keys.
Enrolled in a graduate School for a degree in Biology.
Gotten a single and multi engine pilot license.

Before you had graduated from elementary school:
I had finished a PhD in Biology.
Worked two years during research in a nuclear center in Mayaguez, P.R.
Bought a airplane.
Gotten married to a women who is still my wife.

Before you were out of junior high:
I had quite government and academia in disgust and started a consulting firm.
Been elected president of a tax-exempt research foundation.

By the time you were in college:
I had retired to a life of reading, pistol and rifle shooting, and beer drinking.

You asked me if I had ever heard about Sousa, Sinatra, Beethoven:
In high school I marched in FDR's last inaugural parade to music Sousa had written for my cadet corps.
In high school during WW II, when the girls were literally swooning over Sinatra's silly crooning, my associates held him in contempt for being a skinny little rat who had weaseled out of military service while his country was at war. At he time we all expected to be fighting in a few years.
Beethoven? I can't sing, but at thirteen, I could recite Schiller's "An die Freude" by heart; a poem Beethoven used (and slightly changed) as lyrics for his Ninth Symphony.
Would you care to tell me about you own educational achievements (which I'm sure are impressive).