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If you had any formal education, or indeed two brain cells to rub together, you'd know that the percentage of people who have made it big despite having limited 'formal' education is miniscule. The vast majority of people with limited 'formal' education scrape along at the bottom.
Those with relevant education (other things allowing) may not be wealthy, but they'll usually be comfortable.
Anyone want to put together a list of people who have made it big despite having limited 'formal' education.
If you had any formal education, or indeed two brain cells to rub together, you'd know that the percentage of people who have made it big despite having limited 'formal' education is miniscule. The vast majority of people with limited 'formal' education scrape along at the bottom.
Those with relevant education (other things allowing) may not be wealthy, but they'll usually be comfortable.
Having lots of 'qualifications' often just points to an ability to regurgitate someone else's facts.
It most certainly does not point to an increased level of intelligence.
So yes they may be more highly qualified - but are they actually any better?
As a more general question at what point does your degree become worthless from the perspective of actually showing you would add value in any given position over someone who has experience but no degree?
Anyone want to put together a list of people who have made it big despite having limited 'formal' education.
And then we find they had large culture capital such as inherited family wealth, a donation from their parents, somewhere to live and some one to support them if they failed.
EU employees in the UK were on average more highly educated than their UK peers, the research found. Only 15 per cent of EU employees had left formal education before the age of 17 against 44 per cent of UK-born employees. More than 40 per cent of EU workers were educated beyond the age of 21 compared with less than a quarter of UK-born workers.
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