Unless you want to be a doctor and lawyers, degrees are a waste
of time ...how many grads can be a success in SG....70% ,50% or
less??
You can only be a success if you have something worth being
successful. Be it a grad or not, if you do not have that X-factor,
it's a hercluean task to be extremely successful
You take a degree not for purely the gaining of the knowledge,
but for the training of your mind power, your handling of stress
and the ability to multi-task under tight time constraints, your
communication skills with people from the scientific community,
soft skills etc etc.
If one goes into a learning institution with the mindset that it
is a place only for gaining of knowledge, then one would never
receive the full education/training that the institution
provides.
Even when I teach tuition, I do not teach "memorizing" or
regurgitation of "knowledge". I teach exam strategies, methods of
checking that saves time, how to handle these questions under the
limited time given, etc, as well. All these are skills that can be
applied universally to all subjects, from pri sch to uni exams.