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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the impression from many posts on DCUM that people with graduate degrees thinks that this bestows on them some kind of superiority over those who don't.

Sure, I give you props for doing that studying, especially if you have a PhD, but it doesn't make you innately more intelligent than I am (without a graduate degree), just because you have that degree (though you probably have more specialized knowledge than I do in the one specialized area that you studied).  I have worked with and known many people with impressive educational qualifications and rarely has their intellect blown me away.  In fact, I regularly come across people with graduate degrees who don't learn particularly quickly or have very deep insight into whatever we are working on/discussing, or have extremely little knowledge of the world around them.

Basically the difference between you with your graduate degree and me, without one, is that you bothered to apply, pay a lot of money and study for an extra couple of years.  I could have done that too.  It wouldn't make me any better at my job.  It wouldn't make me superior to my pre-grad school self.

Likewise, when I hire staff I am more impressed with solid work experience than graduate school.  [/quote]

Sounds like someone needs a red sports car.[/quote]

I have nothing to prove. Quite the opposite in fact. I know that I am typically smarter than most of my peers, regardless of how educated they might be. It's just a fact of life, not something I give much thought to. I also don't think peers are superior to me if they are wealthier or more successful (in their career) than me. Yet people here on DCUM like to brag about those things too. I have all that I need, and then some. Just something I pondered after reading some brags here and talking to some millennial at work about their grad school plans.

Glad to see that that most posters agree with me (even though many of then don't seem smart enough to realize that what they are saying is exactly the same as my OP.)[/quote]

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