re: #462 Belafon

Education and intelligence, we’ve established if nothing else with this election, don’t always correlate.

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.