(September 16, 2012 at 1:00 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: A degree is a piece of paper you put on your wall......erm, no. That would be the certificate confirming you completed the degree. The degree itself is the total amount of work / time you put into learning the course material, and completing any courseworks / exams required to complete.
Quote:...and accounts for 10% of any amount of knowledge and even less in experience one can garner.True, but still not grounds for discounting them. A degree in itself only gives you the tools (knowledge, skills, etc.) to do something. It's what you do with those tools that counts.