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Originally Posted by ladydoc
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For those who asked what I meant by posts being anti-education, this is a good example. Yes, in fact, people who have studied subjects for years in school and then gathered more experiencial knowledge applying what they learned in the world, probably do, in fact, know more about those subjects. Why that makes one elitist or a snob (as someone said), I don't understand. It does makes you more knowledgable. You can decide to believe or not believe the facts; thats up to you; but stop attacking the messenger!
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As the one who used the snob word I would like to defend myself. I called the poster a snob because of the condescending attitude that was taken, and not the fact that they advocated reading and learning. As a long time educator myself, I beleive in education, but you can read all kinds of books that totally disagree about almost any subject and eventually you must accept or reject the various hypothesis based on your own feelings, biases, and prejudices as well as the theories put forth in the books. "Facts" that are irrefutable are a bit hard to come by, so I tend to be skeptical of anyone who puports to have all the "facts".