While something like a degree actually feels important immediately once you use it, I'm a little different in that I felt it was important when I didn't use it.
I have always felt that education is important, especially after high school. For a variety of reasons, I graduated from elementary school and high school, have been interrupted for a period of time after the opportunity to study, and I like to read and learn, and has always believed that more serious learning some knowledge, get a relatively high degree of diploma, for a lifetime will always be useful, and even have the benefit of a good, and so later on, to further study to get a bachelor's degree diploma.
Yes, the degree does not fully represent a person's level, knowledge, ability, skills, etc., but it is, after all, a proof of one's learning experience, sometimes it is still very useful. For example, in my senior title assessment, education is a hardware condition.