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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Education never stops for most people as I've grown older I've learned new skills some trivial some more involved but a constant drip drip of skills as my life changes. Academically few of them would qualify as skills but academic achievement is not the be all and end all and not all education is necessarily academic in nature, that's why i don't like people being judged based on perceived standards and prefer judging people on what they do and how they think. A good idea doesn't cease to be a good idea if the person who has it misspells words describing that idea or cannot give the mathmatical formulations that make it good.
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Agreed - but using 'educated' as an insult leads to the dumbing down of society, and denigrates those who spend time learning and feeding back value (such as teachers, doctors, engineers, etc.) being devalued.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
I dropped out of a tech degree with the OU back in the 80's but then again, I'm uneducated so it's no surprise.
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Who, besides yourself, has called you uneducated?