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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the impression from many posts on DCUM that people with graduate degrees thinks that this bestows on them some kind of superiority over those who don't.

Sure, I give you props for doing that studying, especially if you have a PhD, but it doesn't make you innately more intelligent than I am (without a graduate degree), just because you have that degree (though you probably have more specialized knowledge than I do in the one specialized area that you studied).  I have worked with and known many people with impressive educational qualifications and rarely has their intellect blown me away.  In fact, I regularly come across people with graduate degrees who don't learn particularly quickly or have very deep insight into whatever we are working on/discussing, or have extremely little knowledge of the world around them.

Basically the difference between you with your graduate degree and me, without one, is that you bothered to apply, pay a lot of money and study for an extra couple of years.  I could have done that too.  It wouldn't make me any better at my job.  It wouldn't make me superior to my pre-grad school self.

Likewise, when I hire staff I am more impressed with solid work experience than graduate school.  [/quote]

It sounds like you spent a lot of time crafting that message.  Kudos.

Let me ask you something, though:  do you think you're more superior to people without a college degree?  I agree with your post but I would suggest that the same applies to people even without college degrees.

Now go ahead, get all up in arms about how people without college degrees just aren't as good as you!  [/quote]

Huh?  OP here.  First, no I did not spend a long time crafting that message.  (WTF?)

Second, I previously said (in a different post) that two of the smartest, most successful and accomplished people I know don't have college degrees at all.  In fact, one of them barely graduated high school.  However, once you have a college degree (and I can only really speak with experience about my own degree which was not gained in the US and was much more specialized than many degrees here appear to be) you have achieved a certain level of education and demonstrated that you have the skills to learn.  On the whole, a masters degree doesn't add much to that, particularly in non-science subjects.[/quote]

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