Experience trumps knowledge every timr.No offense, but in my experience that's something people with no degree say to justify their lack of higher education. Your statement is definitely true in many cases, but also very wrong in many others. I have hired several people who have absolutely proven that statement wrong many times over. One of them still works for me...not enough to justify firing her yet...but should have all the experience needed to excel, and absolutely does not. Performance is average on her best day. In the corporate world / engineering field out here, it swung wildly after the crash. Meaning, I was a hot commodity when times were good and the money was flowing due to the stack of degrees. But as soon as the market died, it went totally the other way. Just wanted experience with minimal if any college education as that was the cheapest and least amount of effort on the side of the hiring company.