I realized a few years ago that education has become our new class system. As far as I can tell, no one really gives a rat's ass around here about where your people are from any more. They do draw some mightily divisive lines between the university educated and the not university educated, and I'm, oh, so sick of it.
C'mon, kids. Haven't we been through this all before? Didn't we just call it a different name? Like dowry, or connections, or good breeding, or pounds per year? Are we really going to shift the shit to how many degrees you have or don't have? Is it really necessary for me to become more and more of an asshole the longer I am in school?
Seriously. I have no patience for this.
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It is a big pressure isn't it? Well, I find it a big pressure. I'm rather swayed by the whole number of degrees thing... have to remind myself that I can still contribute positively to society and have value as a person regardless of the study I've done. And often it's so specialised it's useless anyway.
Very, very good point. (Yours, not mine ;)
Right there with you, Angela! Right. There.
As a community college instructor (lest we forget our place and call our undegreed selves teachers), I say thanks for swearing.:o)
Great rant!!! I find many of my fellow degree holders to have been educated far beyond their intelligence. Unless needed to acquire a specific skill or knowledge, I see little value beyond proving you'd rather be in school than joining the work force. My only complaint is you didn't swear enough!!!!:):):):)
Girl...move to Hollywood. No one cares WHERE or HOW MUCH you were educated or if you were educated at all...it's all about politics, sex, and ego-stroking. I find it more disgusting than the class system based on education....though I agree that one is nasty too.
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