About letting book learning get in the way of your education.......

The Live Your Own Legend blog advocates "The Birth of Self-
Guided Education (the only real option left)."

Full post here.  Excerpt here

"The thing is, by the time we launched our fund, I had
remembered precisely zero applicable skills from my
studies."

I suspect his notion is that while a fancy degree may provide
a useful credential, it should not be mistaken for expertise.  You
get that the old-fashioned way, you earn it.

I remember back in the early 1980's blessing the creators of
Trivial Pursuit..  Their game provided the first place I could
skillfully apply the book learning that came with my B.A. in
History. 

Anyway, Scott gets a coveted "atta boy" from this blog for
this comment:

And you can never, absolutely never, drop out of learning.
Learn everything of interest you can get your hands on.
Become expert enough to reach goals, to help people, to
make a living doing what you love........No one is going to
do this for you. No school system, no book, no teacher –
It’s on you. You have more tools than you’ve ever had and
the potential for putting them to use grows daily.