(01-04-2012 07:41 AM)Ottoman Wrote: Sarah Palin took seven years to complete a four year degree in communications
(her only degree). McCain graduated in the bottom 5 percent of his class. Obama graduated from Harvard and Columbia-with honors. And of course Biden got his law degree from SYR.
So yea the "liberal" media painted the ticket as a bunch of dummies in comparison. Go Figure.
No disrespect to your opinion, but Dick Cheney made John Edwards sound like he was dropped on his head in 2004 and Cheney flunked out of the same College Bush holds a degree in anthropology from. Bill Gates dropped out of college, how many computer science majors, do you see ever matching his contributions?
A degree does not make you superior, there is only one true university and that is the mind.
Everything else is but posturing and rhetoric.
There are people who aren't even your age, who no matter their level of education, will always be smarter than you.
That is the reality you live in. Some people are gifted with great intelligence, some people are not. That is an in-born trait. I don't believe in fluid IQ. Only the memorization of certain materials. A degree is not a measure of how smart you are, it's simply a sign that you're committed to going through the motions, needed to achieve a certain goal for yourself.
I've met complete idiots as a grad student, some of whom work for the EPA and are profs, that have told me things that are factually incorrect.
In fact, I'll bet you can probably think of a certain faculty member at your university, who fits that description. Elitism has no place. Be proud, but don't be pompous.