[Challenger]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

I've never been asked to participate in an exit poll. Do they ask, "Are you blue collar?", "Do you have a college degree?". Just wonder how they get this data.

Largely from demographics of the precinct

[duffysmom]

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[duffysmom]

For years I worked in the Ph.d program at the City University of NY and found common sense was not common.

[outlaw]

Originally Posted by duffysmom

For years I worked in the Ph.d program at the City University of NY and found common sense was not common.

Some of that may have to do with many PhD programs attracting people that process information in a different way (abstract/theoretical work).

[manaboutown]

It would be interesting if the degrees bestowed were broken down by field of study. Now that might prove meaningful.

[Fredster]

I heard a long time ago that the largest percentage
of what a person learns in their lifetime
is gained outside of the formal education process.
I'm not sure if that is actually true, but it very well could be!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Fredster

I heard a long time ago that the largest percentage
of what a person learns in their lifetime
is gained outside of the formal education process.
I'm not sure if that is actually true, but it very well could be!

What is hard for me to absorb is that life experiences sometimes make one person wiser, more patient, more compassionate, more understanding and yet the same kind of experience fills another with hatred and impatience and the need to retaliate against the world.

[Cisco Kid]

I do not have a degree.
I am stupid.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Cisco Kid

I do not have a degree.
I am stupid.

I don't agree with you on that one.


I think you are very smart and my friend Crosby thinks the world of you.

[Shimpy]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

About 15 years after high school I ran into a HS friend. He had three PhD's.
We were both in the unemployment line.
.

I'm not impressed with degrees that translates to .....can't earn a living with it. My son had a girlfriend that was getting a degree in some arts appreciation and when I asked her how she could earn a living from that she had no idea. To me a big waste of time.
At graduation I meet a very obviously educated friend of my son that was going for her Masters in meteorology. I asked her, and will never forget it, is it so you can be the girl on TV showing the weather? She said "NO" I'm going for my masters so I will NOT be the girl on the weather channel. She enlightened me to all the businesses such as farms that employ them for their business.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by cisco kid

i do not have a degree. I am stupid.

i know you meant that as a joke. but it's not true, you are intelligent AND a nice, nice guy.

[Cisco Kid]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I don't agree with you on that one.


I think you are very smart and my friend Crosby thinks the world of you.

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[DougB]

Originally Posted by Cisco Kid

I do not have a degree.
I am stupid.

How stupid are you?

[joldnol]

Why are some here attacking people with degrees? There is a disturbing anti-intellectual trend in the US of A today. My family has all four of us with college degrees. It doesn't make us smarter or better than others but we shouldn't be attacked for the effort of getting educated. My wife and I come from blue collar backgrounds and were the first in our families to earn degrees (both of us have masters in education) and our two kids have practical (career wise) degrees.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by joldnol

Why are some here attacking people with degrees? There is a disturbing anti-intellectual trend in the US of A today. My family has all four of us with college degrees. It doesn't make us smarter or better than others but we shouldn't be attacked for the effort of getting educated. My wife and I come from blue collar backgrounds and were the first in our families to earn degrees (both of us have masters in education) and our two kids have practical (career wise) degrees.

I don't recall anyone attacking anyone with a degree. I made the comment that degrees don't necessarily mean a person is smart.

In fact. I ask that you read every single post on this thread. One person commented that he thought that degrees that did not aid a person to be employed had little value but no one said anything against higher education in general. I think there is a disturbing lack of respect for anyone who has succeeded and become affluent.