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TOO Smart for College
Reporting on Metropolis ^ | March 16, 2011 | Geri Rutzen

Posted on 03/16/2011 9:33:47 PM PDT by MetropolisReporter

Elitist Entitlement Syndrome (EES): You know, those people who believe they are smarter than everybody else, and therefore, should be making decisions for everyone. They believe this because they have Ivy League educations and live lives above the rest of us.

Some of the smartest people I have ever known never went to college. In fact, some of them never finished high school. And, conversely, people who have degrees are some of the stupidest people...evah!

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TOPICS: Education; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: attentionwhore; blogpimppimpmyblog; college; elitist; metropimp; smart

1 posted on 03/16/2011 9:33:52 PM PDT by MetropolisReporter
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To: MetropolisReporter

[[Elitist Entitlement Syndrome (EES): You know, those people who believe they are smarter than everybody else]]

Yeah, they’re pretty dumb for htinking that- they aren’t nearly as smart as me


2 posted on 03/16/2011 9:40:08 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: MetropolisReporter

[[And, conversely, people who have degrees are some of the stupidest people...evah! ]]

You must be from Maine- Ayuh!


3 posted on 03/16/2011 9:40:57 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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[[And, conversely, people who have degrees are some of the stupidest people...evah! ]]

You must be from Maine- Ayuh!


4 posted on 03/16/2011 9:40:57 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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[[And, conversely, people who have degrees are some of the stupidest people...evah! ]]

You must be from Maine- Ayuh!


5 posted on 03/16/2011 9:41:02 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: MetropolisReporter

Why excerpt?


6 posted on 03/16/2011 9:41:07 PM PDT by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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I have a master’s degree but my father, who never went to college, was by far smarter then I could ever dream of being. He just seemed to pick up knowledge and be able to learn from things around him better then most people I know. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that his father died when he was 18 and he needed to take care of his mother, who was already elderly and disabled, and figure out how to do that in the best way possible, making enough money so that she could keep her house and pay her bills. He never thought of himself as better than anyone else, just tried to be the best he could be.


7 posted on 03/16/2011 9:46:09 PM PDT by MacMattico
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And some folks are just so damned smart that they excerpt from their own inane blogs. You’re elite, in your own stupid blog pimp sorta way. But you’re not going to trick me into giving you a hit.


8 posted on 03/16/2011 9:51:28 PM PDT by r9etb
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“Some of the smartest people I have ever known never went to college. In fact, some of them never finished high school.”
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My father’s family had brilliant minds.
One was a designer of the WW2 bomb site and worked for several high tech firms, like AVCO.
Another owned an injection molding company in New York.
My father was also an inventor and successful businessman. None of them saw a day in college, and may not have been HS grads.
This was, of course, 50-60 years ago.
In my younger days, they amazed me, but all have now passed.


9 posted on 03/16/2011 10:03:49 PM PDT by AlexW
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BS.... self explanatory
MS.... more of the same
BA.... barely acceptable
MBA... mediocre but arrogant
PHD... piled higher and deeper


10 posted on 03/16/2011 10:44:30 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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Half of what college teaches is total crap. Education is figuring out which half.


11 posted on 03/16/2011 11:12:03 PM PDT by byteback
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To: r9etb

Sorry, I never claimed I was “smart.”


12 posted on 03/17/2011 5:51:10 AM PDT by MetropolisReporter
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To: TheZMan

Sorry, I am brand new at this and I never claimed to be “smart.”


13 posted on 03/17/2011 5:51:24 AM PDT by MetropolisReporter
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To: MetropolisReporter
Welcome to the jungle.
Lot of carnivores on here.

Shrug it off and keep on plugging away. Take the good and don't sweat the bad.
14 posted on 03/17/2011 5:56:40 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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Far too many people confuse schooling with education. They are not the same.

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15 posted on 03/17/2011 5:58:50 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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Way to pimp your anti-intellectual blog! So do you have a problem with anyone who went to college, or just Ivy-leaguers?


16 posted on 03/17/2011 6:01:42 AM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

I went to college.


17 posted on 03/17/2011 3:33:55 PM PDT by MetropolisReporter
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To: r9etb

You know me so well. Have we met?


18 posted on 03/17/2011 3:34:03 PM PDT by MetropolisReporter
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