“Educated” means someone who has learned a lot, and “highly educated” is the upper reaches of that. People with the most advanced degrees (Ph.D.) are probably always highly educated, and people with Master’s or law or medical degrees from good schools are too. Or those with two lower degrees in totally different fields that took years of work to earn. Also “highly educated” are all those clever people who read or experience or otherwise gain knowledge. Excluded are people who have degrees but didn’t actually learn much (hello for-profit schools). You can’t use a blanket definition that will perfectly capture “highly educated”. Do we need to try?

I’d say highly educated is more about how much you absorbed and how well you performed and how much you still know and can apply to conversations/thought.

I know MDs and PhDs that are pretty one dimensional and don’t seem educated at all and people with BAs that seem extremely well-educated because of how much they know.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think any Masters out there makes one highly educated. At least not if using a DMV lens.

I would consider a physician highly educated but not a JD, although it's just a difference of a year.

Maybe because all physicians start with at least 3 additional years of practical education.

That makes no sense.

NP

Law school is easy. Med school is hard.

Anonymous wrote:Physicians are not typically "well-educated" IME: they are studious, good test-takers, and driven to succeed.

Highly educated in a technical field, but not broadly educated

Anonymous wrote:I think of it as someone who is extensively learned in a specific topic. I have a BA, JD, and LLM. For my specialty, I attend advanced courses yearly to learn updated material. Most would consider me highly educated and an expert in my field.

But can you only do this one thing? I'd call that narrowly educated, and not someone I'd want with me if my life depended on their knowledge. What do you know about medicine, construction and sustainable farming?

Joe Biden for sure

I think of it as someone who is extensively learned in a specific topic. I have a BA, JD, and LLM. For my specialty, I attend advanced courses yearly to learn updated material. Most would consider me highly educated and an expert in my field.

People who were constantly stoned while they were in school.

My buttocks is highly educated

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Anonymous wrote:So the founder of Microsoft would not be highly educated.

Okay.

That's correct. He's brilliant, but he's not "highly educated."

"Educated" doesn't do the work people think it does. It means something specific, and that thing is not "smart."

Beyond his business endeavors, Gates reads so many books. He travels the world talking to world leaders and ordinary people too. He created an enormous foundation fighting poverty and disease.

You think someone who studies one thing such as Plutach's vision on Alexander the Great for years is more educated?

All these degrees are largely a waste of time. Why not begin medical or legal training in undergrad like they do in other countries? Why all these MA degrees to work at Starbucks? Education has become such a racket in the US. Most people who are willing to pay can finagle a degree from most universities.

A terminal degree.

I am not impressed by the highly educated or anyone else for that matter, even if an MD. There are too many educated fools still.

Anonymous wrote:So the founder of Microsoft would not be highly educated.

Okay.

That's correct. He's brilliant, but he's not "highly educated."

"Educated" doesn't do the work people think it does. It means something specific, and that thing is not "smart."

Anonymous wrote:So the founder of Microsoft would not be highly educated.

Okay.

I have an MA and PhD, and I feel like when people on DCUM say highly educated they don't mean people like me, they mean people in high SES white collar jobs. It's not about the degrees, it's about the signifiers, which Gates has in spades.