re: #466 Backwoods_Sleuth

exactly.

“Education” isn’t solely the province of university/college graduates and it irks me to no end to hear humble bragging by those who never got a degree.

I am the ONLY person in my family to ever get a college degree (two degrees, in fact). Now one of our granddaughters is a freshman at Thomas More studying nursing. We could not be prouder, even if she had chosen another path after high school.

MrBWS is a high school grad. No college. But he is a journeyman lineman making more money than I ever dreamed I could make as a professional journalist with my two university degrees (OTOH, I *do* have certain ethical standards that prevent me for going for the big journalism bucks…also I never had the physical assets that are generally sought after in that field.)

My siblings all followed different paths after high school and most make a good living in their chosen fields.

So I really cringe whenever I hear “I only have a high school education, so what do I know?”

If you haven’t learned a damned thing after high school graduation, well, that’s just sad, but don’t blame it on high school.

Mr. w read a lot in the Navy, which he had joined because nobody even considered college as a place he could go. When he got out, he always hung around with college students or graduates. When he was dating the daughter of a Stanford prof, he applied to a college. They had him take the SAT. They accused him of either lying about never having taken it before, or cheating. He chose not to go to that college. He went when he was in his 60s. Man, did that school ever learn a lot. He quit when he felt like it, so close to a degree that meant nothing to him.

I hope we finish the book before yours comes out.