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Originally Posted by Skybird
Being uneducated and being stupid, are two very different things. I saw many uneducated people in my life who nevertheless were intelligent, sometimes very much so, and I also see many people who call a highly prestigious education their own - and still are as dumb and as dull as an empty banana skin.
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My father-in-law always expressed this same view; before retirement he was a fish-farm manager and pioneered certain breeding processes which earned him great credits. He went from the bottom up in his career, starting as a lowly water-bailiff, and he was always irritated by the university educated types he came into contact with at work or at conferences, who he said nevertheless seemed to display not a scrap of common-sense.