Thus why software engineers often get a degree Or is it because people learn early on in school that there is "no other way"? I recently met with a banker to

Thus why software engineers often get a degree Or is it because people learn early on in school that there is "no other way"? I recently met with a banker to discuss a mortgage. We talked about what I did and discussed my education. I proudly stated that I was self-taught. When we opened up the financials, she almost fell out of her chair in amazement that someone could make that much without a degree and proceeded to call me a genius. I'm not a genius. In fact, I ended up being self-taught because I wasn't smart enough to enter into college in the first place; rejected from every single one I applied to. Most people think like the aforementioned banker though, with the idea that only a super genius can learn without a teacher. The result is that most people aren't even willing to try to learn on their own.