intrinsic value of a PhD (Score 1)

With a Computer Science PhD, like Dumbo's feather, an internal voice is with me to encourage greater effort "anyone with a PhD in Computer Science should be able to do this or understand that", and vice-versa for rejecting technical bunk "have I now become suddenly computer illiterate or is this new product defective?". At the end of the story, Dumbo, the flying elephant, was able to fly without the feather; but would he have jumped the first time?