Sometimes I ask myself if a degree is really a legitimate proof of competence, skill or knowledge. Of course higher education matters, but I wish it would not e

Sometimes I ask myself if a degree is really a legitimate proof of competence, skill or knowledge. Of course higher education matters, but I wish it would not exclude so many people. Higher education is usually the place where social classes start to branch. Academia has often been a tool used to maintain social inequality, and that's the words you often hear from people who are insiders. A lot of people want to be in academics for passion of their field, or for prestige, or for the status. But in reality, it's another place meant to maintain elitism. The weirdest thing is that jobs want you to have a degree, yet you often hear that degrees don't matter. So you quickly realize that education matters, but that degrees should not exist. Students should just want to learn and degrees should not be some sort of carrot on a stick.