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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot depnds on why a person doesn't have a degree.  If an older person didn't have the opportunity for finanical or other reasons, I wouldn't regard it as anything but a lost opportunity for them.

College requires people to spend four years fulfilling requirements for a major, passing finals, and writing papers.  It's a signal that you can stick with a prescribed program and see it through.  That's why employers value degrees no matter what subject they are in (although engineering is valued a lot more), and it's why MIT grads get better job offers than party school grads.  It's also why I do lose respect for people who started college, but just couldn't be bothered to finish.  It's a sticktuitiveness thing.

I also find that people who have not been to college have less familiarity with what is out there to be known, so they sometimes think that they know a lot more than they do.  SOmeone who has taken freshman biology or economics probably knows more about those fields than someone who didn't go to college.  Yet, those people who  pride themselves on being grads of "The School of Hard KNocks" are more likely to have aconfidently stated, but much less well-informed,  opinion on medicine or the economy[/quote]

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