Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post
Quote Originally Posted by duped_samaritan View Post

Yes, I count college as education. Someone who went to college is less likely to think they know better than experts when it comes to something like a global pandemic. Even people with degrees that don't help them with a career.
I guess our definition of educated is different. I consider someone that decided to be an electrician out of high school and went through a 5 year apprenticeship to be educated. I don’t consider someone that wasted 5 years of time and money in college to receive a philosophy degree that now works at Starbucks as educated. Which one would you consider smart?

I consider the people at the extremes of both parties as uneducated and stupid.
Not everyone can be an electrician or have one of these "real" jobs. There is limited demand. I always love this fallacy of the pro-ignorant.

A broad education helps a person understanding the context of the world in many ways. You're getting the job confused with education. Apparently you'd consider anyone who is taught how to do brake jobs and fix flats as "educated". Technically true, but what they learn will serve them 0 outside of the immediacy of finding this job.

A person with a worthless degree who is still quite smart should be able to find a job doing something. I have no idea how smart the electrician is, but it is unlikely I'd find them as smart. If the electrician was smart, they'd went to college and acquired a hard-science degree or something of that nature.

I have a friend whose daughter graduated from Duke with what you'd consider a useless degree. I don't know if the job offer is still there, but she was offered 120k out of college with her undergrad by a consulting firm. It was some environmental degree.