Is school worth it for the learning? How about for the little piece of paper I get at the end?
In the comment section of this post, “Doug S.” gives the most salient analysis I have seen. After stating, “the job of a university professor is to do research and bring in grant money for said research, not to teach! Teaching is incidental,” he was asked why parents would pay upward of $40,000 annually for such a service. His parsimonious reply: “In most cases, it’s not the education that’s worth $40,000+. It’s the diploma. Earning a diploma demonstrates that you are willing to suffer in exchange for vague promises of future reward, which is a trait that employers value.”
Re: premature ejaculation, see The sooner the better. There is excellent therapy for those who desire it, but ironically the SSRI’s that work so effectively to delay ejaculation were developed to treat depression, for which their effectiveness is the same as placebo. Yet, they are FDA-approved for treatment of the latter, not the former.