Lately I have been getting an extra amount of spam offering to help me get a degree from \u201cprestigious NON-ACCREDITED universities.\u201d That\u2019s the formatting they use. \u201cNON-ACCREDITED\u201d is shouted out in all caps. I have to wonder why?<\/p>\n
Is it because they want to make sure you know that the \u201cprestigious universities\u201d they are working with do not have accreditation? Somehow I doubt it. After all \u201cnon-accredited\u201d and \u201cprestigious\u201d are pretty much opposites when it comes to universities. The other option is that they are highlighting \u201cnon-accredited\u201d to fool gullible uneducated people into thinking that \u201cnon-accredited\u201d is a good thing. Surely, people must think, it is highlighted so that you notice how good it is?<\/p>\n
And yet people fall for this sort of thing. For some reason they think, or fool themselves into thinking, that their real life experience is as good as a formal education. They think that all they need, like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, is a diploma to prove how smart and knowledgeable they are. <\/p>\n
Oh there is something to be said for real world on the job training. When I went back for my Masters there was an awful lot that I already knew. I could have passed tests in at least half of the classes without actually taking the classes. But these was this other half where I learned a lot of new things. And even in the classes I could have passed without attending classes I learn a lot of new things. I think this is true for most people.<\/p>\n
Rare is the person who knows as much as a formally trained person does and generally those people are so obviously good that no one cares if they have a degree. Of course if you are an idiot no number of degrees is going to overcome that \u2013 earned degrees or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lately I have been getting an extra amount of spam offering to help me get a degree from \u201cprestigious NON-ACCREDITED universities.\u201d That\u2019s the formatting they use. \u201cNON-ACCREDITED\u201d is shouted out in all caps. I have to wonder why? Is it because they want to make sure you know that the \u201cprestigious universities\u201d they are working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}