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Originally Posted by Blansky
One thing that seems missing here is if a person is going back to advance their careers then the piece of paper is important.
But if just for personal satisfaction, why do you need to go to school to be educated, why can't you just educate yourself?
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I got my master's after I was in retirement. For me, it was just something that I felt had defeated me throughout life. It's one thing to learn about things you are interested in and a whole different beast to study subjects you're not necessarily interested in and be pushed far beyond what one would do to themselves. If I was "self-educating", there is no way I'd be reading 800+ pages a week and writing 20 page papers on miscellaneous topics. It wasn't any fun at all, but I pushed through and now feel like I accomplished something. Granted, I am also now learning I may have educated myself out of getting a "fun" retirement job
