Well, ha ha, yes, I lol'ed here.
However, maybe (one of) your degree(s) is stuck chapter on "correlation" in your freshman stats book.
If there were a negative correlation between usefulness and education, then the most useful people on earth would be illiterate subsistence farmers in Africa, Bedouin nomads, and beggars in the slums of Calcutta. Most people on earth have little or no formal education, and as far as they go, America ranks far behind Bolivia, Botswana and Bangladesh.
I agree that there are useless people with plenty of education, but the argument that education is a bad thing is patently absurd on its face.