A college degree today begins to make up for the appalling k-12 education. It's a baseline of qualification you need to get a job even at some McDonald's these days. Without it, your chances of earning a decent living are much less.
I have a PhD, which is an additional 10 years of education, proficiency in two foreign languages, major and minor comprehensive examinations, dissertation field work and a doctoral dissertation more than a BA. A degree of any kind certainly is not an indicator of intelligence. It just means the person had an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills and acquire a base of knowledge in a field. There are some very well read people without college degrees. People, however, who reject education and knowledge a priori have chosen to make themselves stupid. Stupid is a choice. Lack of opportunity does not make a person stupid. Stupid is refusing to consider evidence and never challenging preexisting views.
Who owns the educations system? You guys have had it for decades. It's why most teachers vote democrat. Hell, my granddaughter's teacher told her her family was supposed to vote for 0bama. All we do is pour money into the system "it's for the children" dontcha know. Some of the poorest places in the country get the most of our education dollars and the schools still fail. And when poor children DO have opportunities for a better education through something like a voucher program in DC (put in place thanks to REPUBLICANS) you wait for the first opportunity to yank it from them despite its popularity. Just look at the numbers of families who took advantage of it! Of course, we can't have those children breaking the cycle of poverty and realize there's a whole big world out there, might get uppity enough to leave the plantation! One of the first things 0bama did was yank that program out from under some of our poorest children. Well, since some of those poor children were going to Sidwell Friends, perhaps 0bama didn't want the riff raff rubbing shoulders with his privileged little girls.
You keep referring to your PhD. So ****ing what? A PhD should know better than use Wikipedia as a source. And they would have enough ****ing sense to actually click on the links posted refuting their assertions and reading the evidence provided. Critical thinking skills and all that! Who the hell is rejecting education? Have you even bothered to find out what kind of education we have? No, you're too busy running around saying "neener, neener, neener! I have a PhD" and screaming like an idiot when someone posts a link to something (you know, like the UN) that argues against your "proof".
What an arrogant piece of work you are. And you've still proved nothing! This follows the typical pattern of all of you everytime you come over:
1. Post credentials showing how much "better & smarter" than us you are.
2. Making an assertion that requires proof and providing only one source.
3. Brag about education and credentials.
4. Yell and scream that if we don't want to believe it we can go do our own research.
(As an aside, I dare you to take any course that requires a paper proving your opinion. Provide a source from Wikipedia and tell the teacher if that isn't good enough they should do their own damn research.) That's essentially what you've done here.
5. Brag about PhD.
6. People on this board continue to provide links to studies that say the opposite of your assertion.
7. Continue bragging about your education.
8. Because you're losing the argument you start insulting people and throwing a tantrum (one would expect better behavior from a lofty, important person with a Phd).
7. Brag about PhD.
8. Make excuses for losers who have degrees but sit around on their asses feeling sorry for themselves because no one has said, "Oh, wow, you have a PhD in Wimmins Studies? Well, damn, come be the CEO the bank 0bama's grandma became rich at!"
9. Brag about credentials.
10. State that everyone who doesn't agree with you has rejected education.
11. Brag about PhD.
12. Try to make nice (briefly) by agreeing that people who don't have PhD's can be smart.
13. Brag about credentials.
14. Stupidly assert that the smartest people on the planet (DU, evidently) are simply lacking opportunity, thus the reason for their moaning, whining & leaching off everyone else. I guess those smart people aren't "smart" enough to make their OWN opportunity. Probably because mean old rich Republicans keep them down (despite the fact that the richest people in government making the rules you and I live by are democrats).
15. Brag about PhD!
Cindie
