"It’s not like you can accuse him of being under-educated."
Bit of a pet-peeve for me: I don't care what school you went to, that (by itself) does not make you "educated."
Education is a matter of broad-ranging, intelligent, synoptic understanding of multiple-aspects of human experience and the world, and the multiple and variegated connections among these.
You don't need to go to school for this, but doing so can definitely help. However, it can only help those who are already predisposed to gain an education.
School by itself is only schooling. Schooling, regardless of the name value of the school, is not education.
Turd Crudz has a lot of schooling. People like Turd silo what they are exposed to so that it never achieves any of the breadth or connectedness that is the sine qua non of genuine education.
You're spot on. For a long time, I considered going back to school for a Masters degree. Then I realized that what college did for me was that it taught me how to learn. I recognized that I didn't need another degree to validate the reality that I have a well-developed ability to learn from experience, from what I read, and from the people around me. By that yardstick, I figure I have a couple of Ph.D.'s already. But the degrees and the pieces of paper that accompany them don't matter. It's the learning and how you put it to use.
For me, I realized that the things I wanted to learn were of such a technical level that I'd never achieve a genuine facility with them by myself. So the MA, and then the Ph.D. were needful steps in my education.
"It’s not like you can accuse him of being under-educated."
Bit of a pet-peeve for me: I don't care what school you went to, that (by itself) does not make you "educated."
Education is a matter of broad-ranging, intelligent, synoptic understanding of multiple-aspects of human experience and the world, and the multiple and variegated connections among these.
You don't need to go to school for this, but doing so can definitely help. However, it can only help those who are already predisposed to gain an education.
School by itself is only schooling. Schooling, regardless of the name value of the school, is not education.
Turd Crudz has a lot of schooling. People like Turd silo what they are exposed to so that it never achieves any of the breadth or connectedness that is the sine qua non of genuine education.
You're spot on. For a long time, I considered going back to school for a Masters degree. Then I realized that what college did for me was that it taught me how to learn. I recognized that I didn't need another degree to validate the reality that I have a well-developed ability to learn from experience, from what I read, and from the people around me. By that yardstick, I figure I have a couple of Ph.D.'s already. But the degrees and the pieces of paper that accompany them don't matter. It's the learning and how you put it to use.
For me, I realized that the things I wanted to learn were of such a technical level that I'd never achieve a genuine facility with them by myself. So the MA, and then the Ph.D. were needful steps in my education.