Dennis Prager Show - Why Don't Degrees Make You An Expert Anymore?
Aired: 2024-03-18
Duration: 04:08


=== 25 Years Of Impact (02:46) ===

[00:00:01]  Yep, yep, yep, yep.
[00:00:04]  It's really important.
[00:00:05]  And I know this hour has impacted a lot of people.
[00:00:09]  The feedback over a quarter of a century.
[00:00:12]  By the way, just the very notion, I've been doing this for 25 years.
[00:00:19]  Time is a very odd thing.
[00:00:21]  As you all know, this is not some revelatory comment, but I just want to note, when...
[00:00:27]  If you say to somebody, 25 years from now, it seems so long.
[00:00:36]  But 25 years ago doesn't seem long at all.
[00:00:46]  Yes, that's the eerie part of life.
[00:00:52]  So, I debated whether to...
[00:00:57]  Review this from a study done, or actually, not a study, but a report about schools in higher education in the United Kingdom and happiness.
[00:01:13]  Because basically, I'm telling it to you to note that what I've been telling you for a quarter of a century, they're now uncovering...
[00:01:25]  at universities.
[00:01:26]  So here's for example, okay?
[00:01:33]  Bristol United Kingdom.
[00:01:35]  Can happiness be obtained by learning about it in school?
[00:01:40]  The University of Bristol's Science of Happiness course launched in 2018 is helping answer that question.
[00:01:50]  Not your typical college class.
[00:01:52]  The innovative course features absolutely no tests or work.
[00:01:56]  Instead, it focuses on teaching students what the latest peer-reviewed studies in psychology and neuroscience suggest really makes people happy.
[00:02:06]  And virtually everything that they teach, I have been telling you for 25 years.
[00:02:12]  It's so interesting because so often I'm attacked through having the influence that I do.
[00:02:17]  Oh, you know, he, um...
[00:02:19]  One place was my favorite.
[00:02:22]  Prager is a graduate school dropout.
[00:02:26]  Now, I've heard of high school dropouts, and I've heard of college dropouts, but I've never heard of graduate school dropouts.

=== Degrees and Lockdowns (01:35) ===

[00:02:33]  But it is true.
[00:02:34]  I left graduate school after two years to write a book.
[00:02:38]  The book is still in print, and I have a feeling it's a lot more impactful than any master's thesis I could have written.
[00:02:47]  But anyway.
[00:02:49]  This notion, which the left, and not even the left, they've embraced it, they use it as a weapon, but liberals just as much, and probably many conservatives, that if you don't have a degree, if you're not credentialed, then you're not worth hearing.
[00:03:16]  When I spoke against lockdowns, everybody who attacked me, then it was widespread, the attacks.
[00:03:24]  This was 2020, and I opposed them.
[00:03:26]  It's in print.
[00:03:27]  It's on the Internet.
[00:03:28]  You can see it.
[00:03:30]  I said it was the greatest international mistake in history.
[00:03:33]  I was right.
[00:03:35]  And nearly all epidemiologists were wrong.
[00:03:39]  So, of course, people said...
[00:03:43]  Where is his scientific degree that he can comment on lockdowns?
[00:03:49]  So what happens is the notion that you can think clearly without a degree is dead.
[00:03:58]  But it turns out that most of the experts who spoke out were wrong.
[00:04:02]  I mean really wrong.
[00:04:05]  I mean injuriously wrong.