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My view: Reject 'Joe Six-Pack' in favor of truly well-educated leaders
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In fact only 1/3 of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution had any kind of formal education and something like 25% had college degrees. So this idea that "I have a PhD and know what's best for you" is pure and utter nonsense.
Education can't definitively say that democracy is better than a dictatorhsip, or that captialism is better than communism. But it CAN say that one person's education is better than anothers?
Sounds elitist to me.
Our society has changed over the past 200+ years since George Washington was around. We have gone from a production-oriented economy to a knowledge-oriented economy. In the early days of the country, you didn't need a formal education to provide for your family. You do now. Of course, there are outliers in both situations, as pointed out in paragraph 7. Some well-educated people who lack common sense and some uneducated people are very successful, but they are the exception.
I believe Obama had a rich person backing him too.
The level of education obtained is not an accurate barometer of these qualities, and the level of wealth obtained is an even worse barometer.
'Education' and 'knowledge' are not the monopolies of universities. I'm 'educated'; it's no big deal. I noticed that most students were so impressed with their big bad selves for being in an institution of 'higher learning' that they couldn't be taught anything but that which the most flattering professors had to say.
Of course there is real knowledge in non-philospically oriented courses, such as engineering and the like.
'Knowledge' is not wisdom and sometimes simply a euphemism for institutionally approved, but very shaky,opinion. Good legislation is more about wisdom or the right application of solid knowledge. 'Knowledgeable' people, if this only means people who have passed the requirements of an accreditied university, are often neither good, wise or honest.
I saw little of open mindedness or independent thought at university. Oh yes, I passed the requirements after successfully navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of professorial bigotry and political correctness. Then I got on with the acquisition of useful knowledge and its beneficial application.
Thanks to Commissioner Sederburg for his comments. I would personally rather have a Harvard Law Review president leading our country than a Hockey Mom (one heartbeat away) who can't name a major newspaper that she reads.
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