K: to assume that someone is “uneducated” based on occupation is a
silly remark… I have come across many educated people doing “low”
class job… taxi drivers with PHD’s, so just because they drive a Cab,
does that mean they are “uneducated”… hardly… but it is typical of
those with stereotypes to assume that the job/occupation indicates
education level…but more importantly this stereotype makes an
assumption about what educated actually means…
does it mean that only those who have gone to collage are educated?
to be educated means a certain level of knowledge… Bush Jr. went
to Yale and was easily the least educated president we have ever had…
not because he went to collage but because he had very little knowledge
about the world we live in…Bill Clinton and Obama were very educated
not because of the schools they went to, but because of the knowledge
they knew… they were educated not only about the government and how it
work (something 45 has no idea about and he has a collage degree)
but Clinton and Obama could engage in discussion about a wide variety
of things, the various aspects of the humanities and they could discourse
about science and sports and literature which is what being educated
actually means… so am I educated? yes, did I go to collage? just a year
or two of Junior collage and I didn’t even get a certificate of any kind…
and yet, I am easily one of the most educated people on this board…Why?
because I have never stopped learning…I have engaged in study all my
life on a wide variety of topics as I am engaged in a study of philosophy
from the beginning, from ancient philosophy to the most recent philosophy…
I thought this study would take 2 years and it is turning into a multiyear study
which right now seem to suggest I would be engaged in it for 5 or more years…
17 century philosophy, Descartes and Spinoza and Leibniz and all of them in those
years has almost taken a year itself… and I see no end in sight…
so to regard me uneducated based on job or occupation or even formal education is really
“uneducated” of you…
Kropotkin