Title.
Yeah some of them are.
Having rich parents makes it pretty easy to get a higher education. And you can pay people to do your homework.
Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?
Submitted 1 month ago by PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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daannii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
PHD is probably the hardest , MA is probably the easiest one to still fake it, since its not an MS.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nothing to do with rich people. Good education is free in Germany and people who have Masters and PhDs can be just as stupid.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m continually amazed at how fucking idiots have jobs, buy houses and cars and stuff.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
most of them inherited their money.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
To put it simply, there is a difference between “intelligent” and “smart”.
DandomRude@piefed.social 1 month ago
It’s kind of interesting that most people here seem to assume that attending college is synonymous with education or knowledge. It would be nice if that were the case.
However, there are also quite a few people who went to college but didn’t learn a thing there - especially in countries like the U.S. or England, where a college degree costs an absurd amount of money, this happens all the time. It’s especially common there to find children of wealthy people who are as dumb as a box of rocks, yet still manage to buy their way into high society with a college degree - they’re guaranteed to get it, regardless of whether they learn even the slightest thing at university.
The current U.S. president is a good example…
Kintarian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It absolutely astounds me that all the idiots currently running America went to Ivy League schools and have degrees. I thought for sure they all went to clown college. What exactly to they teach at Harvard and Vasser?
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ivy League schools are just places to make connections with other rich people, so you can land a seven figure job right out of college and think they’ve earned it
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
they also tend to produce elitist graduates too, some professors from my CC went to one of the ivy league schools and his attitude reflects upriging fromt he schools, pretty arrogant towards the student, and why they are not passing gen chem.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s even worse when you find out they’re not acting.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because it’s the emotional inner world that defines how people behave, not education or knowledge or wisdom.
innermachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Education has no bearing on intelligence, or how “smart” you are. Sure, being more educated CAN make you smarter, but most people can skate by and get a degree while learning next to nothing. Plus I think a lot of higher educated yet ignorant people have the nose-above-ear holier then thou complex and can’t be told anything they don’t agree with or believe in already without throwing a fit. Plenty of educated people are very intelligent, but I think the stupid educated people make a lot of noise and appear as a larger group than they are as well. You know that whole loud minority thing.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Education isn’t intelligence. Academic achievement is done through effort in studying.
axx@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
(Academic) education is not intelligence, and certainly not wisdom.
The worst part is this education doesn’t protect you from falling for certain loopy ideas. Critical reasoning is a skill and like all skills it needs to be learnt and maintained.
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What makes you think it’s an act?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You major in like 1 specific thing… it doesn’t turn your brain into an Artificial General Intelligence
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
turns it into an LLM.
breezeblock@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
All humans think fast and slow
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
College is not a test of intelligence. It’s a test of your parents’ finances, perhaps, and your ability to conform and play the game, and in some cases one’s willingness to cheat as well. In my experience very few people come out of college any smarter than they went in, and given the preponderance of people who seem to major in beer the opposite may in fact be true.
What worries me is not the number of people who manage to stumble through college and still some out the other side stupid. Based on my personal experience with my client base, what keeps me up at night is the sheer majority of people who apparently cannot read and possess no critical thinking skills whatsoever and probably shouldn’t be trusted to tie their own shoelaces, but some asshole still saw fit to issue these people drivers’ licenses, insurance policies, mortgages, and allow them to buy giant SUVs and guns.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because people have different standards and don’t agree on what smart or stupid is.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not all colleges and not all degrees are equal. Some people can excel in a single field but struggle in everything else. Some people have excellent memory function but precious little ability to reason. Some people change dramatically from their late teens to their late twenties. The list goes on…
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
All a degree gives you is skill in one particular thing.
It don’t give you shit all else.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 month ago
College degrees just ensure we’re specialized.
Or becoming better just ensures you get more work done, and thus more work shoved onto your plate.
I know a guy who was smart enough to go to University, but went to a basic college instead (or rather, a Dutch equivalent). “I don’t want to do all that” is his defence in not going to Uni.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are only two options: Either they’re stupid and can’t comprehend things, or you’re stupid and can’t comptrhent what they can.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Formal education is just a means to an end, end being typically independence/jobs, not actually intellect (no matter how much it’s marketed as such).
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People say books and college are for to be to make you smarter, but they can also be for to be to get you dead
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Idk all the reasons, but I watched this yesterday and it blew my mind. Ppl are crippled now
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People can cheat or learn to just memorize and repeat information without really accepting or retaining it. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make a drink.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Care to give an example?
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If you identify educated people as drastically different from you, perhaps they are just trying to fit in when they’re around you.
EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
To quote a song lyric from an excellent rock band… “Clever, not very wise”
(Midnight Oil - Shipyards of New Zealand)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
[deleted]hawgietonight@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
mlg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you’re in the US, bachelor degrees are pretty worthless lol.
topherp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Look up Cipolla’s laws of stupidity, pretty much sums it up.
toomanypancakes@piefed.world 1 month ago
I went to school for business like a dumbass, so I didn’t learn shit about shit. That and genetics made for one dumb bitch.