Man Pursues His 30th College Degree - Neatorama

Many students can't wait to be done with school, but not Michael Nicholson. The 71-year-old Michigan man has earned 29 college degrees and is now pursuing his 30th:

"I just stayed in school and took menial jobs to pay for the education and just made a point of getting more degrees and eventually I retired so that I could go full-time to school," Nicholson told ABCNews.com.
"It's stimulation to go to the class, look at the material that's required and meet the teacher and students. It makes life interesting for me," he said. "Otherwise, things would be pretty dull."
Nicholson has one bachelor's degree, two associate's degrees, 22 master's degrees, three specialist degrees and one doctoral degree.

ABC News has the story: Link

I admire his drive for knowledge but it seems as though he just never wanted to leave school and enter the real world more so than become a learned man. After all he has 29 degrees but can't use a computer? What's wrong with learning to use a computer if you're interested in knowledge. One should never stop learning but isn't there another part of learning that's very important which is actually applying that knowledge? He could of had a very successful career and used that acquired knowledge to make the world a better place and help teach new generations. But what did he do with his life? He studied, did homework, and sat tests. Seems to me he's lived a very self centered life.

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One wonders how difficult the Masters degrees are if a person can accumulate 22 of them. Aren't they rather specialized?

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I've got one he probably can't get. My GED. I know how to ewes a computer two.

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Waste of time? No more of a waste than watching hours of TV a day, spending hours on the internet, blogging, playing videogames, or even reading tons of fiction. Everyone occupies their time in different ways. He's happy and he's not hurting anybody, so where is the problem? Though I do wonder how he pays for it all.

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Good on him. I would love to do things like that. He should take all his caps and put them in a big frame like the Cullens do in the movie Twilight. That would have people talking. I really am suprised by some of the negative comments. There are some really depressing people in this world who just can't keep there negative comments to themselves, they're not happy unless they are bagging someone out. Sad.

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A degree is not the same as understanding. Most tests can be passed by rote memorization without the need for comprehension. You'd be better off to buy the textbooks and sit down to study them with the goal of personally comprehending the subject matter, than to read them with the goal of passing the final exam and earning the degree.

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The love of learning what one is interested in should never be looked down upon. What's all the aggression about? It's his hobby, he's keeping his brain fit. He could be sitting on his ass behind a computer wasting time looking up useless trivia....oh wait, THAT"S US.

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@Edwin Abbott

How about you get apostrophes figured out first?

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@Matthew - You see education as only a means to an end, not for the purpose of enlightenment.
What makes him any different than an Olympic athlete? How much time do people spend gaming? Acquiring material wealth?

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Thirty degrees and can't use a computer (see the article)? If he really want's a challenge, get that shit figured out.

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Sure because his generation doesn't have to pay the crippling rates for college and loans that we do.

Rub it in codger..... funny how if he used up more gas, or water or food than anyone, we'd be disgusted.

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to what end?

Why?

WHHYYYY?!

Whatever floats your boat, but it seems to me to be the waste of an education if you're not going to use it for anything other then bragging rights for being the MOST EDUCATED PERSON EVAR

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