Originally Posted by pourmeanother

No apology necessary, good sir. I think it just took us a little while to realize we were seeing eye to eye. I definitely agree on all these points above, at least to some extent.

I think my main concern was the direction the thread turned somewhere in the middle- and it wasn't you, just in general- there was this ominous tone creeping in that "higher education is a waste of time" and that "nothing good comes from it". It's true for some, but not all.