[Vladik]

An undergraduate degree in this country teaches you how to become a worker bee. If you like being a worker bee, getting a decent(?) salary, taking 2 weeks and then later in life maybe 6 weeks vacation, by all means study business, marketing, etc. Otherwise, get educated.

"Self education is, I firmly believe, the only kid of education there is." -Isaac Asimov

If only we could have a few more people every year become free thinkers and creators.

[shrikant]

He likely meant "Go to school/college to learn, not to 'be taught' everything by your teachers."

[julius_geezer]

Didn't Asimov do an advanced degree in chemistry?

[Vladik]

Yes he did. Medicine, law, engineering, mathematics, etc., most people will need to go to college and graduate programs. Tough to self-educate in those areas.