Debate: Are Degrees necessary for being successful?

[no_atkt]

all i will say is:

i wonder did billy g complete his degree

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by no_atkt

all i will say is:

i wonder did billy g complete his degree

Well, the point holds true if one relates success to money & fame. What is success? - the question puts us back to square one

-The Big K-

[no_atkt]

success: insimple terms is when others appreciate your achievements
success is when u go 1 step ahead of your comtempararies
success is when u over some your fears

and as abhishek bachchan in guru rightly puts ...

u r successful when people start critisizing you

so what is your definition of success

[The_Big_K]

This discussion seems to have come to a halt! Speak up, fellas!

-The Big K-

[ash]

Firstly, I won't talk about degrees per se, but the environment in which you achieve the degree. In college/uni, you are given the opportunity to absorb a lot of knowledge, meet with experienced professors personally make aquantinces with a lot different kind of students, have access to laboratories and do your own research, etc. Besides that, there are societies and clubs to join as well. By joining those, you can learn to do things that are beyond or not in your degree syllabus, like organizing events, being a "treasurer", designing posters, meet with outside people, represent the uni in sports and so on.

Its the combination of all of those that would make a degree as something beneficial. But, a degree are useless if you dont take advantage of the process of getting it. If you are a lazy bum who skips class and aims to get the pass, then whats the point? Even those a straight 4.0 students who just seal themselves up at the study table may lose out.

Secondly, "sucess" itself is a matter of personal definition, as reachrkata said. Whether you want to have you own business, invent a new device, discover a new law (or flaw, in reachrkata's example), be an actor or a basketball star. Some generally define them as success because in the end those people get rich. However, how about those who seek to solve the world's problems, help people in charities, be a soldier defending your country, a policeman keeping civil order and a teacher spreading knowlege to children amongst other things? All are considered a success. So money isnt really everything if you want to consider what success is. Some require degrees, some dont.

In conclusion, you dont always need a degree to be successful. But that only depends on what you want to be successful in. How you obtain the degree can also decide the avenues of what kind of success is possible. Thats it for now.. maybe I can add some things later if this debate goes on

[MaRo]

This is too complicated in view of some people, but for me unversity partially not useful, this rule fits very much with colleges that are computer-related, computer can be totally self-taught, Bill Gates was a Law student before dropping out.

But If you have an idea that can change the world go for it, your grades wouldn't even change your city.

EDIT:sorry for bumping

[laxmi]

hai.....degrees r essential for a man to earn more money...say for eg-professional degrees...

[mahul]

There's no escaping professional degrees,especially if ur a person looking up to a career in the technical field, that's for true. For the average and above average lot it can never be any other way.....they got to have a technical degree to land up a job, there can be no other way. but for the brilliant, and i mean the real brilliant of the lots of fresh techies that they churn out at tech schools every year, going in for professional degrees can really serve a bottle neck to ur creativity and independent thinking. Most of the most admired , self made guys are proof enough, don't u think so??( this includes the lot of people who were professionally trained for something and excelled in something else). Well in india the situation is rather worse with the average IQ of the teaching community far below the IQ's of the top 10% of the class the teach( i do sincerely hope hereby that none of my teachers is a member on this blog).

[EGYSHIMO]

degrees in faculty are not very important to realise success in life that is my opinion i think u should be flexible and be patient and use ur mind not ur heart to think u can make dagrees but degrees can't make u

nice topic

[technospartan]

DEGREES NEVER MAKE CAREER!!!!!!!!!!!!
(leave aside success.)
their are thousands of innovators in this world without a degree (many are school dropouts!).Did we ever ask ourselves how is this degree (a formality to be very frank.)going to help us in making a successful engineer? thousands of students from various universities round the globe are graduating in professional courses,but how many are successful?
how many are really enjoying their work?
Well according to me degree is just a piece of paper and more of a fomality