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[quote=Anonymous]For some it may be a proxy for social class or income, but setting those aside I think it is about wanting a person who has a wide range of reference and knows how to question their own ideas. Reading a lot can be a substitute for higher education if you’re disciplined, but the point isn’t just to know more, it’s to be exposed to different people and different ways of thinking. To be challenged and have your own beliefs humbled. To understand the basis of different kinds of human knowledge, their limits and their possibilities. To value growing through always learning.

Just as you might want someone who cooks well or is handy, you might also want someone who knows how to work with different kinds of ideas. Not someone who is content to continue seeing the world through the lens of where they are from. It’s a mindset and a kind of character.

I also think it’s attractive to see someone succeed at something hard. Same as if you trained very hard for a certain activity, you would encounter your own limits and have to figure out how to level up. Being well educated often means you have some grit and mental discipline and natural intelligence, which helps with other issues in life. Not that people who don’t have an education don’t have these qualities, many do and don’t have opportunity. But it’s a kind of shorthand for qualities of temperament and character on the dating market.[/quote]

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