When people say "Educated"
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Anonymous
| Do they mean a college education? or beyond? |
Anonymous
| College |
Anonymous
| For me it means someone who has acquired a lot of general culture and academic knowledge, even though it might not be at university. But yes, most of the people I consider educated have a graduate degree. |
Anonymous
| Book smarts but no common sense. 🤦‍♂️ |
Anonymous
| A BA from a certain tier of college or a post graduate degree. |
Anonymous
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If you parrot the latest dogma of the progressive hivemind, you'll be considered "educated" no matter where you went to school.
If you question the latest dogma of the progressive hivemind, you'll be considered "ignorant" no matter where you went to school. |
Anonymous
| At least a bachelor's |
Anonymous
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I think most people consider it to mean higher education, but to me that’s “academic”.
My H is the most educated person I’ve ever met and he got an associate’s later in life, so not educated in most people’s minds. But he has a huge thirst for learning, listens to audiobooks and podcasts all day long, has self taught himself multiple skills, and rates highly in all the different types of intelligence (logical, emotional, creative, etc). We win at trivia night every time we play, too, ha. I also think educated is different than intelligent, and that there’s different types of intelligence. My best friend is uneducated and often considered quite stupid - she dropped out of high school and often doesn’t understand things that are common knowledge. But she’s extremely socially intelligent, I’ve watched her go to just the playground with our kids and she becomes everybody’s best friend within minutes. She’s also insanely good at connecting people, she remembers everyone she meets and all their details, so if she meets someone who just had a baby but is struggling financially, she’ll remember the random person she met a month ago who was looking to get rid of their baby stuff and hook the two of them up. Meanwhile I have the highest and most prestigious degree of all of them and I feel like a total idiot when I’m with them, ha. School was easy for me, real life, not so much. |
Anonymous
| When I say it it means I have a PhD but I don't want to say the degree for fear you will think I'm so kind of weirdo. |
Anonymous
They'll give a Ph.D. to pretty much anyone now. Nobody bats an eye. It's not that special anymore. |
Anonymous
WTH? |
Anonymous
The PP speaks truth. Previously a Doctoral candidate in Education required the earning of a Masters equivalent in a foreign language. Not today. The standards for all degrees has been lowered, sadly. |
Anonymous
Tell me you’re low class without telling me you’re low class. |
Anonymous
| Graduate degree. |
Anonymous
Just looking at people on dating apps who claim to have PhDs, I have to agree. |