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Democrats don't understand what it means to be educated

Everyone has their own journey. I continue to be educated every day. I just don't get it inside a classroom. I have far more rewarding things to do with my time. In fact the time I spent finishing my degree was a complete waste of time. But I was told I needed it which turned out not to be true. I'll tell you what is worth the paper it's written on is my resume. My education is on the 3rd page and really isn't all that important compared to my work experience and the technologies I know.

Hey, how about Donnie? I bet President Trump going back to the White House caused you a relapse of TDS. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Come on, let's do the Trump shuffle!!!
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Ah, you know my sister's situation. You were perhaps neighbors on ByField Road, chatted about the Marlow Conspiracy.
I'm someone who believes that Shakespeare's writings were by...William Shakespeare rather than Christopher Marlowe or de Vere or Sir Francis Bacon (and if I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd lean toward Bacon). Today and in previous times some people have found very difficult to believe that Shakespeare could have written with the breadth that he did about shipbuilding and so on, but I'm not among them.
 
On Christmas morning with a house full of family for the holidays a heart surgeon woke up to discover a major pipe burst. He called a plumber and begged for a quick response.

Promptly the plumber showed up and fixed the bursted pipe. He handed the surgeon a bill for $650.00.

Surgeon: Jesus Christ! Are you kidding me? You were here for 20 minutes and you are billing me for $650.00. I’m a heart surgeon and I don’t make that kind of money!

Plumber: I know. When I was a surgeon I didn’t make that kind of money either.
 
What exactly is extraordinarily over generalized.
This: "The American educational system's goal was/is to present practical knowledge for living and contributing to a life in an entrepreneurial economy where money and position are the standards of success not knowledge of one's history and literature. The English treat education as something special offered to the public. American's treat education as essential to making a living."

How I wish that it were true that English departments focused at least a little on practical applications of "English." I mean, they do teach "service courses," but very, very few English majors these days, including their professors, lack the fundamental skills that we all used to take for granted.

By the way, when most people refer to English courses, they are thinking of literature courses rather than on writing courses, and I assure you that there are financially rewarding jobs for English majors with practical "English" skills.
 
Re: For example, James Whitcomb Riley was tremendously popular at that time, but I think most people today are unfamiliar with his name.

Two textbooks authored by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks have a permanent place on my bookshelves. Understanding Poetry (1939) and Understanding Fiction (1943). I do wonder what place they hold among readers today.

The editions I studied were published in the 60s. Along with my entire library they were lost in a house fire. But they were among the first books I replaced and still browse through from time to time. Your exchange with @NewfieMom reminded me how much pleasure I still enjoy from my "old" teachers.
Well, at least in my own experience, scholars still very much value Cleanth Brook (but the "New Criticism" has been replaced, IMO, by the "Post-Moderns") and Robert Penn Warren. Every generation has to metaphorically kill off its parents, you know.

Reading what you wrote reminded me of books on my shelves only feet away from my desktop. I inherited my father's history and language books (so many dictionaries and the home OED too) , so I have Fowler and all the masters of the grammatical universe right down to fun tomes such as I Always Look Up the Word 'Egregious" ("A vocabulary book for those who don't need one," LOL),
 
The orange won because even garbage is smarter than Liberals.
They're going to stick with all the bigoted rhetoric even though they were punished at the polls for it. I'm hoping some democrat takes this bigotry even further and introduces legislation that restricts voting rights to those without a college degree. The midterms are going to be a blast. 2028 too.
 
Gosh, there surely were a lot of them this election! I've spent a lot of time active in local politics (where you stop the worst of the rascals before they can escape to Austin or D.C.), and when canvassing neighborhoods and collecting signatures and registering voters, etc., what I noticed was that it was the middle-class neighborhoods with the most informed citizens. Neither most of the wealthy or the lower-income families were as interested, and in the case of the lower-income citizens, even when the issue was dangerous sewage or potholes on their own street, they wouldn't become involved (for a number of reasons).

But I don't know anybody who would deliberately vote against his own best interests, so what you're implying is that they're too stupid to even know what their best interests are and need others to tell them what those are.

Yes, Paternalistic thinking, as in "they don't know enough to see what's best for them, so WE smart and knowledgeable ones will take them under our wings and guide them."

In reality this is assumption bias combined with a superiority complex mode of thought.
 
Being educated means having a degree in gender studies, being unemployed, and having $200,000 in student loan debt. On the other hand, a plumber making $100,000/yr with no debt and no college degree = dumb uneducated MAGAT oaf.
This is a good example of uneducated conservative thinking.
 
Just because you have that degree doesn't mean you can perform the job. Two different things.
But it makes it much much more likely that you can over one without a degree.
 
But it makes it much much more likely that you can over one without a degree.
That's exactly what I was told. Turned out not to be true in my case. YMMV
 
That's exactly what I was told. Turned out not to be true in my case. YMMV
I am saying, "in general"... but it also depends on the degree and has to be in that field.... A doctor or physicist will know more about that field than a person without a degree probably 100% of the time...
 
On Christmas morning with a house full of family for the holidays a heart surgeon woke up to discover a major pipe burst. He called a plumber and begged for a quick response.

Promptly the plumber showed up and fixed the bursted pipe. He handed the surgeon a bill for $650.00.

Surgeon: Jesus Christ! Are you kidding me? You were here for 20 minutes and you are billing me for $650.00. I’m a heart surgeon and I don’t make that kind of money!

Plumber: I know. When I was a surgeon I didn’t make that kind of money either.
Bursted? Let me guess, non-college educated?
 
This is a good example of uneducated conservative thinking.
It's an example of basic math. Or personal finance if you want a fancier word more fitting to a university graduate.
 
They're going to stick with all the bigoted rhetoric even though they were punished at the polls for it.
If we are to use this forum as a measure, you're correct.
I'm hoping some democrat takes this bigotry even further and introduces legislation that restricts voting rights to those without a college degree.
Maybe they could phone up Sharon Stone or Alec Baldwin, and ask them for their advice on the matter. They both say Trump voters are "ignorant and stupid" for voting for him.
The midterms are going to be a blast. 2028 too.
Looking forward to more of this.
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It's an example of basic math. Or personal finance if you want a fancier word more fitting to a university graduate.
It is a completely made up assessment... so... it is basically nonsense.
 
If we are to use this forum as a measure, you're correct.

Maybe they could phone up Sharon Stone or Alec Baldwin, and ask them for their advice on the matter. They both say Trump voters are "ignorant and stupid" for voting for him.

Looking forward to more of this.
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Funny how some actors denigrate others intelligence. It's not like you need a college degree to cosplay.
 
Let me guess, non-college educated?
Your post has to do with a map that shows a sea of red from sea to shining sea?

My guess is no high school.
 
It is a completely made up assessment... so... it is basically nonsense.
So why is there so much whining from the left about student loan debt? They should just use their degrees, earn the $, and pay it off instead of asking for a handout.
 
I believe in public schools and the necessity for the community to provide public education.
The govermnent guarantee is juist a K=thru 12 education
No one needs a private education. If you can afford to send your kids to a private school, do it. If you can't, so what?
Sounds quite elitist.
If you think your local public school is crappy, then get your community to improve the school. A public school only fails because the community lets it happen.
it's not that simple. And often when the community does get involved. such s by attending school board meetings and raise their voice on an issue or two, they get branded by the left as domestic terrorists. It's not like the old days when the Parent Teachers Association gave parents a reasonable level of influence.
No vouchers for religious schools because part of the public money funds religious education.
Not up to you. Many states are already doing vouchers.
 
If we are to use this forum as a measure, you're correct.

Maybe they could phone up Sharon Stone or Alec Baldwin, and ask them for their advice on the matter. They both say Trump voters are "ignorant and stupid" for voting for him.

Looking forward to more of this.
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I really hope the democrats push the envelope on this "democrats are smarter and vote better because they are college educated" rhetoric. Imagine if you were waiting in line and overheard two people saying this. What would you think of them? That they are assholes? I would. Would you be convinced to vote as they do? I wouldn't, even though I too went to college. I would think that I don't want to be associated with a political party that is so bigoted against those without college degrees. But democrats will never think that way. But they will tell you they are the party of equality and inclusivity. As long as you have a college degree.
 
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