Bahhhh (hum)Avbug!
I've met a few folks who were a little too educated for their own good. I'm working with a few of them right now, come to think of it.
That's only your opinion of them as individuals. Are they making you feel less smart or insecure? I hope not. That's not what education is intended for.
Education has a different effect on people. A group of students sitting through a lecture will focus on different things. Their former experiences will help shape and interpret how they perceive and form understandings. How they apply this knowledge is up to them and is uniquely based upon their present paradigm. IOW, how someone understands and interprets knowledge will be dependant on how they view things at that moment. The interaction between knowledge presented and how it is absorbed into a persons mind will vary. That's why we all have opinions and viewpoints that vary. We all have had different experiences that will play a large role in how we process additional information.
What you're dealing with Mr. Avbug are not people who are too educated, but idiots in general. This my friend, is caused more by nurture and their life-long oversocialization by society, which is also quite varied from person to person.
Ah, yeah, lessee. Pedagogical. Would that be the art of watching people walk, or selling sunglases. Those darn five dollar words. You educated guy are really something.
Gee, sorry if this is a big word for you as you have clearly made it seem. It really isn't and people around me use it in casual conversation (maybe it has something to do with living in the "Big Apple"). I didn't mean to use a word that might make you feel belittled. Fortunately, we are blessed with an extensive vocabulary which can aid us in describing things more accurately. Should I dumb down my points so that YOU can understand them. If you grab a dictionary, you might learn a new word. The word was meant to encompass the rote aspect of education and how it's acquired thorough formal instruction. It says nothing of an individuals intellect. It's only a process.
Or that you have too much time on your hands and couldn't find anything productive to do.
That's one way of looking at school. I guess college graduates are a bunch of lazy guys without productivity on their mind. Unlike you of course. I'm sure you start your day off with a box of Wheaties - The Breakfast of Champions, such as yourself.
Never make the mistake of equating education to learning, or attempting to correlate a degree with intelligence or wisdom. One is not necessarily the other. Education provides a degree, paper, and the accolades of letters beside one's name. Letters are a wonderful thing. Apparently.
Surely you jest.
While it's true any moron can attain a degree with minimal effort, there are many others who feed heavily on the education process and learn something. Some even go on to change the world in a positive way. If great minds didn't receive the proper devlopment and fostering of their intellect through education, we might not have had a lot of important things in this world.
I WILL make the mistake of equating education to learning, simply because education is very close a synonym for learning. No one is telling you to believe that education will make you smart. It doesn't. Your intelligence or I.Q. is set at birth and can only get lower throughout life (if you let it). What you acquire along the way is called learning or education and serves to develop your experience which should lead to wisdom and some modicum of skill in your choosen field.
Oh, yes they can! However, few would want to...because the only person to whom it's of any worth is the one holding the little piece of paper which as transformed them from a mere uneducated clot into the holder of a degree. Much like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.
An education cannot be taken away from you. Don't confuse a piece of paper (a degree) with an education. An education is what has been absorbed into your mind. I would have thought you understood that much. Of course any material item such as a diploma can be taken away. Get real.
Wilbur, you slept with my daughter and ate my wife's fruitcake. I like you. Orville, you bought a type rating just for this job, and wore a blue suit. I like blue suits. This is going to be close. Wilbur, we both go to the same church and I saw you paying your last cent to orphans at the charity drive last thursday. I was impressed. Orville, I saw you feeding the orphans and giving them candied yams with your grandmother's heirloom fork. I was touched. Wilbur, I see the experience of your years creased into the lines of your face, as though you are a chiseled monument to flight. Orville, your first hundred hours took place while still in your mother's womb; flying is in your blood, son. This is a very hard choice. I can only hire one of you, and I love you both as my own sons. Wilbur, you hit three fly balls in a row, but Orville, you wear my wife's favorite cologne. Wilbur, you can recite all the presidents in order and say the Lord's prayer in French. Orville, you can make little animals from balloons. Gentlemen, it's close. Very close. What it comes down to is this. Orville has a masters degree, and I have to go with him. Wilbur, try not to let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
See, even in your silly little fabled mind, you see Orville came out on top!
