“As long as you need to learn something rather than to have a degree, you can do a better job teaching yourself than by going to a school
Once the school convinces you that you need their certification to be successful, their job is done.”
Unfortunately the corporate human resources types think in terms of the latter as well. Although I have a BSEE, HR thinking rules that I am not qualified to work on programmable logic controllers since I have not had a formal course on it. Everything is supposed to be spoon fed, and no one is supposed to figure out things on their own, using the basics as a foundation. It’s a variation of the “not invented here” mentality.
I am now a principle at an industrial controls systems integrator. Small outfit with a lot of “out of the box thinking”.
“Everything is supposed to be spoon fed, and no one is supposed to figure out things on their own, using the basics as a foundation.”
Which is logically inane. If that concept was fundamentally true, we would have a species stagnation.