not educated. indoctrinated. with obama's changes to student lending, there was a HUGE influx of people getting bachelors and masters in useless libart degrees. prior to then, it was very difficult to get a useless degree without mommy and daddy paying for it because lenders wouldn't pay for a subprime degree. they know those kids will never pay that back, and the default rate is 30%+ while the rest struggle to pay it with their shitty barista jobs.
Ancient hieroglyphics? Masters of multiple languages? Those are deserving of high praise and status. Linguists are very important and it's hard to get there, as every language has its bad habits and similarities (as well as dissimilarities) that make it a high skill life.
Reading a book? Well, some of us are better than others but I wouldn't expect a basic skill to be deserving of high praise, unless you are a speed reader -- though not really a skill that's very easy to teach and most people seem to have it innately.
They’re only “smart” in the traditional sense.
They're educated.
Let's not beat around the bush.
You can be educated and dumb and you can be uneducated and intelligent.
An education is just what you learned and retained from schooling, and that schooling -- as we all see -- is very flawed.
not educated. indoctrinated. with obama's changes to student lending, there was a HUGE influx of people getting bachelors and masters in useless libart degrees. prior to then, it was very difficult to get a useless degree without mommy and daddy paying for it because lenders wouldn't pay for a subprime degree. they know those kids will never pay that back, and the default rate is 30%+ while the rest struggle to pay it with their shitty barista jobs.
PhDs for reading ...I kid you not...I was amazed when I realised. They are mostly left brain people with no common sense
Depends on what "reading" entails.
Ancient hieroglyphics? Masters of multiple languages? Those are deserving of high praise and status. Linguists are very important and it's hard to get there, as every language has its bad habits and similarities (as well as dissimilarities) that make it a high skill life.
Reading a book? Well, some of us are better than others but I wouldn't expect a basic skill to be deserving of high praise, unless you are a speed reader -- though not really a skill that's very easy to teach and most people seem to have it innately.
I'd just say they're "degreed". That's it. Most of them got out of it what they put into it. Nothing smart or educated about it.