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All a degree gives you is skill in one particular thing.
It don't give you shit all else.
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.
To quote a song lyric from an excellent rock band... "Clever, not very wise"
(Midnight Oil - Shipyards of New Zealand)
Because people have different standards and don't agree on what smart or stupid is.
I see people praising something as total genius, that I think is stupid as shit. And I see really smart things people say, downvoted into oblivion and called stupid.
People generally think stuff they agree with and makes them feel good is smart, and stuff they don't agree with and makes them feel bad is stupid.
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
Care to give an example?