Liz: An excellent post - and let us not forget that Albert Einstein worked in a patent office.

Not having a degree does not make one any less intelligent. Some members of Mensa are manual laborers. Not all are professors and doctors. People with an inquisitive mind are born that way. Not having the opportunity to get a degree hardly makes anyone less smart.

I would guess that most of us here have had to work under an "educated" supervisor who seemed to have the common sense and intelligence of a dehydrated pea. How many of us here have gone to a doctor who seemed clueless about our symptoms? Regards, Lil