Something that has always bothered me somewhat is how some institutions have a monopoly on "knowledge" in what is known as degrees. Basically you may know something but "officially" it is as if you don't know it because you don't have the degree, and therefore, you are not recognized as such. It is a nonsense product of centralization. Perhaps, the least they should do is to give free exams to people who learned something in a self-taught way and who want to be able to use that knowledge in their working life, for example. All that matters is that one know it, right? But apparently not. There is also a lot of prestige and appearances involved, but that is another matter.

In my opinion the current education system in most (maybe all) countries is not about knowledge at all, it is probably a business. Many of the people who end up going to universities do so simply to get a job and not to learn this or that, and the result is often incompetent professionals who often don't know what they are talking about but speak with authority because they have a degree to back them up.

You're right, that's how change is made, I hope they finally end up recognizing his knowledge.