The U.S.' vaccine rollout is world-beating

Re:The U.S.' vaccine rollout is world-beating by ymbeld on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:27PM (#26144818)

Not a strawman at all. It is quite common for people with a post-secondary education to think that they have fundamentally better critical-thinking skills and are much less prone to propaganda, just because they have sat in lecture halls for 4–9 years. And you don’t exactly dispute or disprove that, degree or not.

I personally expect people with post-secondary education to be more ideological than people without one. After all, they’ve been in some kind of educational institution for longer...

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Re:The U.S.' vaccine rollout is world-beating by JohnBooty on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:06PM (#26148833)

    It is quite common for people with a post-secondary 
    education to think that they have fundamentally better 
    critical-thinking skills and are much less prone to 
    propaganda, just because they have sat in lecture halls 
    for 4–9 years

sigh.

There's no way to be clear enough against somebody with a bad-faith agenda.

It's pretty clear you want folks with postsecondary education to disdain those without it.

Perhaps you had a bad experience with education, perhaps it simply feels good to you to tee off on perceived elitism -- whether it actually exists or not. You wouldn't be the first. Some people just get off on that underdog angle.

I regret to inform you that I do not think that postsecondary education automatically makes anybody better than anybody else at any particular thing, and few do, and I've not said such a thing ever. Do I think there's a positive correlation between like, education and critical thinking skills? Yeah, sure. I'd also agree that universities turn out plenty of idiots, and of course some education sucks and can be worse than none at all, and that at best formal education is just one component of being a well-rounded person. All hail the autodidact.

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