Letters to the Editor
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@ madamfauntleroy
Yes, agreed.
"However, I do take exception to the educated vs the not educated part. In my experience, I have found that even the educated have a profound lack of common sense and common decency that many of the not educated seem to have in abundance. Hell, look at George W. Didn't he go to Yale, and then we have Newt Gingrich who has a PhD in something or the other."
A fair point, to which I can only offer that while Bush did literally attend Yale, that's not necessarily the same thing as having been "educated" there. But yes, your point is apt, especially because one of Yale's missions has been to churn out the ruling class.
So perhaps, perhaps, the problem is self-serving employment of education. I don't think that education necessarily makes people more moral or ethical.
I do think, however, it provides the potential to do so.
This is tricky, though, you're right. I often find myself overselling the value of education, most likely because I was raised to value it so highly. It was the one thing they could never take away from you, as my mother was fond of saying.
"Also, the most cosmopolitan, the very well heeled and well traveled, yes, they only have stamps in their passports, like Hillary, to boast of their having been to many countries. I know many people like that who have and will support narrow and excluding right wing policies."
Again, point taken.
Thank you for keeping me honest.