Raggy is Keith A a "Professor"? If he is not then please do not refer to him as such if discussing education.

"you should be saying that a good education is vital in whichever field you choose to follow.you should be saying that a good education is vital in whichever field you choose to follow."

Why should he be saying that Raggy? Examples in the real world show us often enough that while education may be considered as being important it has never ever been considered as being a vital requirement in order to succeed in many walks of life.

Neither the Duke of Wellington, or Horatio Nelson were celebrated academics (Unlike GUEST, Dave) of any note yet both carved out astonishingly successful careers as military commanders. In the Duke of Wellington's case fox hunting and commonsense taught him more about being able to "read" a landscape than any book learning, it almost gave him a sixth sense when it came to being able to predict what lay on the "other side of the hill".

Keep up the good work boys, over two years yet and you have still not been able to counter a single point put in support of the three points originally detailed by Keith A - One more year to go and had you really applied yourselves to the task you could all have earned a degree in History - only trouble is that would have definitely exploded all those myths you cling to so dearly.