What do you consider uneducated?

[Anonymous]

Strayer University

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't equate formal schooling with being educated.

To me, ignorant is uneducated. Even if you have a Ph.D.

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I have met people with a 4th grade education, my grandfather and my father and they are some of the most intelligent people I know. Formal schooling does not make one "educated" one's intellect and knowledge are a foundation for their education!

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Anonymous wrote:My mother only has a high school diploma. She also speaks 4 languages, has lived in 6 countries, she has tought children all over the world. She paints, draws and can play three musical instruments.

Would you consider her uneducated?

No, I wouldn't. However, how did she get hired to teach children 'all over the world', if she only has a high school diploma?

She's not American. Her first teaching job was in her home country, after that she went with my father to France and taught her language in an international school. With that experience everywhere else they went, she was hired. Only in the USA would you rather have a 22 year old with 0 experience and a MS than someone with years of experience and no degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. If you just have an associates degree, you are uneducated. You may be smart and read, but you are still badly educated.

I don't agree that people don't have access to a college education. Most people can't afford a private education, but they can afford a BA or BS from a state school, even if they have to earn it one class at a time. If you are so poor that you can't afford to pay for one class at a time, then you will qualify for pell grants and loans. College is the US is expensive, but there are ways to get it.

I do worry that a lot of people don't know how to access the help they need to afford it, though.

Ugh. You know there are 19-year-olds financially supporting their families of origin, right? Do you think the aid out there covers all life circumstances?

That's not about access. That's about choosing not to go to college. That 19 year old would be better off to take a Pell Grant and borrow the remaining entire cost of the local state university, including living expenses, and work a part-time job. In most cases, the amount of money to live on for the family would be the about the same.

I know people who bought 1 class at a time. I know people who didn't start until they were 25. I know people who went in the military and the military paid for their classes while they were still in. There are lots of ways to do it.

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You can't use a Pell grant to take one class at a time.