The day after I wrote this post and started editing it, I found Ms. Career Girl’s post, “The Best Education is Self-Education,” and Matt Chevy’s “I’ll Never Go Back to School,” which are both great reads.  I want to dig a little deeper, ask some different questions, and think about it from another angle though.  Before I start with my thoughts on college degrees and questioning the value of them, please know that I believe ongoing education is one of the most important parts of life and can honestly say that Self-Education has taught me more than anything.  I also understand that Medical Doctors, Lawyers, and Bio-Molecular Engineering probably need years in a classroom.  This is more about the ‘other’ majors, and I find myself thinking about this subject a lot lately when I see my student loans every month and the career path I took is a completely different route than what I studied in college, Finance and Economics.  Sometimes you just have to wonder if you really needed that $60,000 piece of paper?  Lately, mainly because of the free information era we live in, I feel that I have learned more over the last year than the past 6 combined.  It is no longer about the resources available to us because we are only limited by our willingness to learn.  Everything is out there and the best part is that it’s free.  The bigger problem is knowing where to look.  Here are 5 questions that I sometimes wonder about…

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