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While attending a private university, I found professors who treated me like an annoyance, a child, and an adult. I had professors who were poor instructors, and professors who were great.

Since leaving university, I've found many situations where neither degree nor education matter much... and some where it did.

I'd believe many community colleges are underrated, and the modern university system has a lot of flaws and ways in which it poorly serves its participants (faculty and students alike), but the value in a specific path of participation seems a lot like a YMMV kindof thing.