Hey Kaslin. I agree whole heartedly with your statement. I’ve known plenty of PhD’s that are absolutely brilliant but are dumber than rocks. Real world facts being attacked with doctoral thesis don’t always work. On the other hand, I’ve known folks with hardly a high school diploma able to figure out things that are beyond a lot of “highly” educated folks. Somtimes your real world experience far exceeds your “learned” ideas. :>} Then there are folks who just “get it”. Not to mention the folks who think that they MUST go in to horrendous debt to send their kids to school. Whatever happened to working your way through college? So it takes more than 4 years. Sense of pride is/can be a good thing.
I only have an Associate's degree (earned it on-line, part-time) - I am in a position with my company that requires a 4-year degree (minimum), and routinely out-duel guys with multiple degrees come lay-off time.
Dad taught me that hard work and integrity (and common-sense) will (eventually) trump everything else.