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Originally Posted by Amalthia
DG, my grandmother also only had a high school education but she's very well read and intellegent. I think many people within a certain age range only have a high school degree because college wasn't pushed heavily until the 70s? with all the vets getting the GI Bill.
I also think at one point High School was the equivalent of what a college degree is today.
College does not necessarily equal intellegence because really college is easy, you just have to do the work and show up for class. Oh and you have to have money.
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I agree with you regarding the whole education does not equal intelligence. People equating intelligence with education is one of my pet peeves. My grandmother was illiterate and never attended school, but she was still one of the most intelligent women I have ever met. Several of her grandchildren hold doctorates, and Lord knows no-one in our family had any money to speak of, so money isn't necessarily a prerequisite for an education, I disagree with you there. My other grandmother completed only grade 6, but was well read, intelligent, and could speak several foreign languages fluently. Neither my father nor my mother had the opportunity to attend high school, but with hard work have managed to raise their children well. I can't say that my brother and I were lacking for anything growing up, and we are both highly educated (if not successful; my brother is successful, I'm sort of NOT. Financially, that is! That's fine with me, though!). In the course of my studies I have met (sorry, but it's true) people dumb as posts who somehow managed to make it to graduate school through ambition and perseverance, but lacking in the knowledge that (I would have thought) would be expected at that level of education, so yes, I really don't believe that people attain degrees based on necessarily intelligence. I believe that motivation, finance / family life play a much larger role in that sort of thing.
Anyway, for the record, I only fit into one of the e-book reader categories, maybe two, I'm not sure what they mean by HEAVY internet use.