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Despite not having a degree, I spent 3 years teaching people with degrees how to write. My respect for a B.A. is less than zero.

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In any field I have an interest in, I expect to know more than any B.A. graduate with a degree in that field & am almost always right.

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Note, I am saying B.A., not BSc, or an engineering degree, or whatever. Most B.A.s are only about having the piece of paper.

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World of difference between disciplines where you need to produce results to get your paper and ones where you can just write "well", yeah.

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A B.A. is good, if you went into it wanting the knowledge it can actually offer. Most people don't.

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One reason I quit uni was we had 3 mandatory textbooks from one prof in a year, and they were all demonstrably worse than established books.

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yeah, well, corruption and incompetence are always possible. Also many universities effectively have TAs teaching course, with is BS