Thanks for the thoughtful reply. However, you group education and training together as if they are the same, which they are not. In this case, you can have a professional coach with a proven track record of instructing jumpers but if they don’t have a masters they can’t get this job. However, someone with a masters in ANYTHING is given preference for this job because of their education in a totally unrelated field. This isn’t the sort of discrimination that people make a fuss about, but it is the sort of discrimination that leads to lesser qualified people getting the job. That is why i could see a time in our future where it may be illegal to require education even if it has no relevance to the job. In the example with the coaching gig if they required a masters in kinesiology or an athletic related field that would be much more understandable. I’m not saying i think it should be illegal, just that i have a feeling it’s going that way.