In most cases the only important properties of a
degree are to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the person holding
it is able and willing to make personal and financial sacrifices in
order to obtain a higher goal and be a small part of something much
greater than himself, to follow bizarre rituals and orders to do
amazingly meaningless tasks for several years because he is told it
will lead to the higher goal, to submit his entire image of self-
worth to the judgment of an authority who not only gets paid for
crushing it, but will keep the money regardless of the outcome, for
which he accepts all blame, and, finally, to realize and come to
terms with the realization that he is not the smartest person on the
planet regardless of how smart he is.
