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If you’re in the US, bachelor degrees are pretty worthless lol.
Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?
Submitted 19 hours ago by PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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mlg@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Care to give an example?
topherp@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Look up Cipolla’s laws of stupidity, pretty much sums it up.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
If you identify educated people as drastically different from you, perhaps they are just trying to fit in when they’re around you.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Higher learning teaches students how to think critically (or develop a very good short term memory).
But it doesn’t necessarily teach students TO think critically.
They’re taught the tools they can use, but using those tools takes effort and causes discomfort. So most people choose to use them as little as possible.
So, the main difference is: people (speaking generally) who have some post-high school education have developed the tools to approach a topic in an intelligent manner. This means that, given enough effort, you can help them understand a topic. Without that toolkit, trying to show them how something is more likely true based on evidence is often pointless. But having that toolkit isn’t going to make them automatically come to evidence-based conclusions.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
because getting a degree is more about dodging Pedos and school shootings while paying the check than any kind of learning
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
hawgietonight@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A bit of a flawed view there that higher education lands jobs magically. It’s probably the other way around, and those with mild curiosity and life ethics have a better shot at it.