Our Education System Sucks

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

53. Your logical fallacy is equivocation.

It's the manipulation of a word that has multiple meanings to put words into the mouths of people who aren't saying what you are, and that word in this case is "educated."

Educated can mean either being knowledgeable after careful study, or it can mean having certification from an institute of learning. Those two things are not always the same thing.

Just because someone has a degree does not mean they are educated. It is entirely possible to squeak through a uni, even a prestigious one, and either learn nothing, or only retain it long enough to get through a class (or series of classes) and then dump it all once they have the degree in hand. That happens all the time, else we wouldn't have a plethora of idiots with Harvard degrees in the world.

Yes, it is possible for someone with no college degree to be "educated" in the sense of "knowledgeable" or "learned;" however, that person will rarely equal the extent of knowledge held by someone who did go to college and bothered to take advantage of the opportunity to learn whatever they could there. I can always tell the people who made good use of their college English or history classes by what they see in books, movies, and current events compared to people who did not attend college.

Anyway, DuhSatan is educated in the sense of having a degree, but he's uneducated in the sense of knowing anything worthwhile. Adam Schiff is educated in having a degree, and also in the sense of knowing worthwhile things. Unlike DuhSatan, Schiff has retained what he learned at uni, and then expanded beyond that, even, because he's the kind who cares about knowing reality.

Oh--and logical fallacies? It's uncommon for people to learn about them outside of the few brave souls who take logic or critical thinking in uni. Of course, some people do learn about them outside of formal education, but that doesn't happen very often. Certainly not often enough.