Matt's quote makes total sense in his context -- the best way to learn a technology. The article title, however, is a bit misleading. Though college degrees aren't always the path for everyone, I'm certainly happy to have mine as it's helped my career tremendously.

My degree is BA Liberal Studies with an Emphasis in Psychology which I used to become a licensed multiple subjects teacher in California. This helped me contribute to WordPress in a better way -- leading the Make WordPress Marketing Team for over two years.

Computer science is a core engineering degree that may teach you how to think in the context of the whole but isn't mutually exclusive to learning technologies that evolve quickly -- like Javascript.

Though I appreciate the sentiment of this article, it's a little bit discouraging and slightly dismissive to those of us who have degrees and are considering master's degrees later in life.

Though we all know that our skills learned on the job and during Open Source contributions are valuable, they don't always translate well on a resumé/CV to get the best possible position, furthering our career and economic independence.