| Clinton : Business Owner 12th August 2016 10:01 PM |
No need to be curious, it was not me who joined a forum and started arguing
That doesn't answer my question of course. You evaded it. You sure you don't have a PPE from Oxford? ;)
It's not the plumbers, bakers or the gardeners.... But always the lawyers, teachers, clergy and medical profession
Okay, I get it. Professionals are either convicted criminals or yet to be convicted criminals. Keep taking them chill pills, yo, they is working. You've made the transition - undisguised anger to simmering hatred.
education goes far wider than what you can learn in a classroom
No kidding, Einstein! I grew up in a fishing village in India. I left school at sixteen to start my own business. I graduated privately (night study) from a little known university in a small backwater of a third world country where most people don't speak English. Yet I know how many full stops to use at the end of a sentence. You want to teach me that there's education outside of a classroom? If you got irony you'd be killing yourself right now.
BTW, a tip for you: try WD-40, it may cure your sticky key. Spray WD-40 liberally on your keyboard. Turn keyboard upside down. Shake violently. Buy new computer.
What outwardly may be seen as deliberate ignorance or taking a stand against the culturally superior, is just a by product of the old barriers breaking down.
Steve, I don't buy that. ITGeek007's last post says that some people "CAN think of themselves as far superior ". Er, they are superior. Nobody has trouble with people being better than they are in many fields of life. But when it comes to anything academic or intellectual they go crazy and spew bile all over the place because they associate intellectual achievement with social class.
This is especially so with communication skills - the ability to express oneself clearly and without ambiguity, the ability to construct a logical argument, the ability to put a coherent sentence together. It never fails to bring out the reverse snobbery. It's balmy! Or Barney. Or however you want to spell it. 
I get that some feel strongly against claims of superiority arising from birth, the notion that someone is more worthy simply because they were born in a particular family. But they don't do their case any favours by rejecting education, self-improvement and proper use of language. In their rejection they're reinforcing ignorance and perpetuating privilege.
They're their own worst enemies. In the meanwhile the "fool" who got (or gave himself) a good education is getting paid more ...and laid more. He's stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid like a fox.
But the REAL education is when you get out into the big wide world and start experiencing life etc
ITGeek007, the real world has the potential to provide a great education. But not everyone drinks from the fountain. Some folk are keen to improve. Others take delight in staying ignorant; they wouldn't recognise a life lesson if it bit them in the ass. They assume that simply by virtue of not going to college they know more about life than those who did. That they are somehow more honourable, more worthy. They, in all their "virtuous" ignorance, are the ultimate snobs.
Am in a hurry so E&OE and all that jazz.
Clinton
