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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with PPs who say that most people probably don't know you don't have a college degree but if it bothers you, you should think about going back to get it.  I think you'd bring a lot to any class you were in.  You have a lot of life experience which is often lacking in college classes.

Like the PP whose grandmother grew up on a farm and had a high school diploma, my grandmother was also one of the most educated people I've ever known.  She grew up dirt poor, married at 16, had my father at 17 and didn't graduate from high school until she was in her 60s.  She worked in the school cafeteria she took classes and graduated from.  She was very well read and researched items she found at flea markets (Real, midwestern flea markets.  Not what we have here), auctions and yard sales.  She was so very creative.  She could piece together fabics, creating her own pattern and sew the most amazing things.  She refinished and repaired furniture.  She was an amazing cook and could kill and dress a chicken/duck like the best chef.  She was also excellent at reading people and very intuitive.  She had such  difficult life and the older I get the more I see how underappreciated she was and how often she felt inadequate.  I just hope she knows how much she taught me and how much I learned from her.  I talk to my kids about her often.

Like the PP, I say this because a college degree doesn't mean you are educated.  It may be something you need to advance in your career but if you really want to be educated, you need curiousity.  My grandmother has really opened my eyes to the many type of intelligences and how many people in the trades are well educated and how many white collar people are not.  Education is what you do for yourself, not what a school does for you.[/quote]

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