Smarter because of a College Degree??

jf1acai wrote:

One way a college degree makes a person smarter is that you can't go through four years of being exposed to many different ideas and intellects without realizing that the defintion of "smart" is not limited to "people who agree with me".

I'm not buying that. I know many people with college degrees who think that 'smart' means agreeing with them.

How many people do you know WITHOUT college degrees that think that?

As for the people you know....well, not everybody benefits from a college degree, and some degrees are damned near worthless. But I'd hold that anyone who attended a reasonably rigorous college or university has been exposed to people they realize are scary smart and yet don't share the same opinions they do. It doesn't take huge amounts of intellect to conclude from that experience that people can be very intelligent and yet come to very different conclusions.

I'd have to agree with at least some of the points in the video. I have recently started into the Secondary Education program at one of our local 4 year colleges. In my limited time being part of that program, I can say there is a very noticable liberal slant. I was told I am not the typical type of person that signs up for this program.

I'm not sure what "liberal slant" has to do with a person with a degree thinking they're smarter.

I don't think this trait is exclusively liberal or conservative.

I've found it's usually someone who doesn't have a degree bringing it up, too. I'm guessing the guy in the video doesn't have a degree.

jf1acai wrote: Shoot the messenger, and ignore the message?

There is no message. It's one guy's opinion. It doesn't mean he's any smarter than anyone else. I guess he'd be happy with the first president without a college education being elected.

It's a free market and an employer is free to hire whomever he wants. My understanding is people with college degrees generally make higher salaries than those without. There are exceptions to that, of course.

I know plenty of people that never even finished High School that I would consider "smarter" than 95% of the people I have classes with. Common sense is better in my opinion to the regurgatation of information.

Interesting... When filling out an application for a position with a good company, trying putting down "common sense" instead of a degree, and let me know how that works out for ya....

Wow, first the teabaggers cheer for a hypothetical guy with no insurance; then they cheer for the guy who's executed the most inmates; then they 'boo' an active-duty serviceman on-station in Iraq for being gay, and now they're extolling the virtues of being un-schooled and un-degree'd. Looks like the teabaggers are in a "race to the bottom."

Funny, I have done that and it's worked.

Good for you... And what was the annualized income for such a prestigious job? (You can express it as an hourly rate, if you like... I can do the math...)

Your smug tone denotes that your ideas of prestigious and mine are two different things. Let's say you would have been pleased.

And your reluctance to answer the question tells me all I need to know.

Why, because I don't consider a high salary working with at risk youth a prestigious job in the same way you do? There's more to the world than money, some people have figured that out. It was about 65k a year, How's that rate in your world?