UNIVERSITY DEGREE: Is it true that without a degree you won´t be very much respected in a society?

Question

Should a person without a degree be viewed a with lesser value? In your opinion, what makes somebody deserve respect?

Answer 1

I think that having a good education is very important- Everyone in my family (parents and brother) has at least a graduate degree, while I'm currently working on my masters degree...I'm impressed by people who are well educated and in good professions- and so is everyone else around me in my experience...

Answer 2

You will get respect by showing other people respect and by respecting yourself.   A college degree won't do it.

Answer 3

I really don't know...seems like anyone who would look down on someone just because they don't have a degree is an a*****e anyway...so who cares what they think?

Answer 4

depends on you.

I know brilliant technology directors with no college education at all, and I've known people with MA degrees that are dumb as a stump.

Answer 5

Well, a university degree is not very important to me, it doesn't matter if someone has got a degree or not. What matters is how that person behaves and acts. So, for me personally, a person without a degree shouldn't be seen as being of lesser value.

I have known people who are incredibly discriminatory against people without degrees. Some have even seen people with degrees from, in their opinion, 'bad universities' as being of lesser value. I was at a dinner party once, and a friend of mine, who went to Exeter University (a very good red brick) was talking to an old clergyman. The vicar asked my friend where he went to university, and when he heard Exeter, the vicar exclaimed "Oh, a fine quad!" thinking my friend meant the Oxford University college.

When my friend corrected him, the clergyman simply turned his back and didn't speak to him again.