When people say "Educated"

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Anonymous wrote: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.

They'll give a Ph.D. to pretty much anyone now. Nobody bats an eye. It's not that special anymore.

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Yeah, no, you wish they gave PhD to anyone but "They" don't. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Book smarts but no common sense. 🤦‍♂️

Tell me you’re low class without telling me you’re low class.

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Very true!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If educated means having an advanced degree, what does ‘highly educated’ mean?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

They'll give a Ph.D. to pretty much anyone now. Nobody bats an eye. It's not that special anymore.

Agreed.

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Anonymous wrote:A BA from a certain tier of college or a post graduate degree.

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In the dating context, this means completed college or higher.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I quite like you, PP. You are a refreshing soul to see on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, no, you wish they gave PhD to anyone but "They" don't. Sorry.

Oh yes they do. The standards for research work are lower (including language requirements - and don't get me started on the downfall of the Classics departments across the country) and the main value of have these poor PhD candidates is some free labor.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, no, you wish they gave PhD to anyone but "They" don't. Sorry.

I mean, they do. The top schools hopefully don’t, but pretty much anyone with a bachelors could get a phd if “they” really wanted. I’m impressed by an MBA from Harvard or a law degree from Stanford. Wish the system wasn’t so broken, but here we are…

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Generally just a BA/BS/BFA.

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I'd be wary of anyone describing themself as being highly education, in the same way I side-eye someone who tells anyone in earshot of their "profoundly gifted" child/children.

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I think it's a proxy for social class. We don't really talk about class very well in the U.S. So a dating profile can't really demand "upper middle class or upper class." Wealth is related but not quite the same thing. You can be blue collar and rich. You can be upper class but not have any real money yourself - as a graduate student, for example.

You can maybe talk about "earning potential," but it's entirely possible that the person cares more about social class than earning potential. They might prefer a philosopher to a plumber for whatever reason.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

They'll give a Ph.D. to pretty much anyone now. Nobody bats an eye. It's not that special anymore.

WTH?

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.

I don’t even know what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, no, you wish they gave PhD to anyone but "They" don't. Sorry.

Oh yes they do. The standards for research work are lower (including language requirements - and don't get me started on the downfall of the Classics departments across the country) and the main value of have these poor PhD candidates is some free labor.

DP. I don’t see any slide at the top research universities. If anything, our requirements have gotten more stringent and we have fewer slots. You have to do original research to get a PhD, regardless of the field. In the social sciences or sciences your research would probably result in 1-3 top field journal articles. In the humanities, it would have to be the draft form of a book manuscript.