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I left school with no qualifications.

Began my introduction to academia as an undergraduate at 36 years old I started my masters degree when I was 40 for a further 2 years. I am now 64 years old.

The main contributor of a successful adult education is life experience, something you do not have when you are 20 years old starting out as an undergraduate. You cannot buy or learn from any tomes about life experience. It must be a lived experience.

I found I had a focused commitment and an enthusiasm for the subject I studied.

A PhD is philosophising in your choice of subject, whether that be the sciences or in my case psychotherapy, and not a post graduate degree in philosophy.