I have both, but I fail to see your point other than to troll and puff your chest. Some of the smartest people I’ve done business with were high school dropouts, and some of the dumbest had Ivy League degrees. Book smarts don’t mean diddly if you can’t apply them with some street smarts and common sense.

RadClown on January 22, 2013 at 4:31 PM

I agree with the heft of your rebuke.

I won’t hire high school dropouts. But I have hired many men with no post-secondary education.

Intellect is socio-hereditary. Education is mostly a function of discipline. Most people can be educated beyond the capacity their intellect might indicate; the military proves this. Our military has mastered teaching individuals with varied intellects to execute complex operations with micrometer precision.

My point here was not to troll. Rather I sought to rebuff the anti-intellectuals, anti-education morons parading pompously in the emperor’s clothes.

I wonder how many people kvetching in this thread hold post-secondary degrees. How many hold post-grad degrees?

Capitalist Hog on January 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM

I have both, but I fail to see your point other than to troll and puff your chest. Some of the smartest people I’ve done business with were high school dropouts, and some of the dumbest had Ivy League degrees. Book smarts don’t mean diddly if you can’t apply them with some street smarts and common sense.

That’s the headline they chose to run with, and yet the article spends most of its time focused on the fact that when the economy sucks grad rates go up.

raxx on January 22, 2013 at 3:55 PM

AP pokes fun at that interesting detail in this Greenroom thread.

Do your degrees somehow make you a better person?

Nope.

As we have seen by so called educational elite college degrees are mostly BS.

chemman on January 22, 2013 at 3:41 PM

LOL. I take it you don’t have a degree.

I’m not sure why you think university courses are any better. I attended a private high school and took AP classes. Some college courses I took were below the level of what I had already learned in HS. The education system we have is nothing but useless credentialing.

Resolute on January 22, 2013 at 3:08 PM

This is a laughable retort. You probably think a Suzuki Samurai is equivalent to an H2. It’s just a little smaller, right?

All universities are not equal. You must know this. I can guarantee you that nearly all of my undergrad classmates were better educated than those at Podunk U.

I took AP courses and earned credits from AP exams. I notice you did not mention your exams. If you took AP courses and did not go on to college you wasted your time. If you took AP courses but didn’t earn credits, you blew it.

I make no apologies for being a snob.

Capitalist Hog on January 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM

Do your degrees somehow make you a better person? They may make you more educated but that in itself doesn’t make you better than those that don’t have degrees. As we have seen by so called educational elite college degrees are mostly BS.

I had another student in an Algebra II class who couldn’t add and subtract negative numbers. But he needed one more math credit to graduate, so the administration put him there to get his D- (even though he came nowhere close to earning it).

I see all high-school grads as under-educated until they earn a degree requiring upper-division coursework. Post-grad is preferable.
I make no apologies for being a snob.

Capitalist Hog on January 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM

I’m not sure why you think university courses are any better. I attended a private high school and took AP classes. Some college courses I took were below the level of what I had already learned in HS. The education system we have is nothing but useless credentialing.