Diploma Mills

[Thorne]

Nobody ever said that. You just choose to take it that way.

The guy said that if you're not going to bother to learn as you take courses you might as well just buy your degree. It was meant as criticism, not as a statement on accreditation.

I took it just like this, and he's honestly right. If you are earning credits, you should either (a) learn something or (b) know the material beforehand. In the case of Shmoop, some folks just want to burn through it and finish as many courses as possible in a month without trying to learn anything at all, then justify it by implying something like, "I need a degree in less than six months, and I already have 10 years of life experience, so this doesn't really matter."

Now, if someone has read the Bible 9 times through and took a Bible as Lit class, I wouldn't even care if they sped their way through, because 9 times through any material and you've probably got it memorized as best as possible.