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And what does this say? That our "educated class" is educated beyond its intelligence, and mistakes mastery of its patois and attitude for wisdom and competence.

Interesting, upbeat analysis!

1 posted on 01/15/2010 9:00:28 AM PST by betty boop
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2 posted on 01/15/2010 9:03:26 AM PST by betty boop (Malevolence wears the false face of honesty. — Tacitus)
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The Beltway Elite is discovering Obama isn't their savior.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

3 posted on 01/15/2010 9:09:20 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Mommy Professor’s little windup talking dolls are the worst provincals in the USA. They make hillbillies look like renaissance men.


4 posted on 01/15/2010 9:10:31 AM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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What is the “educated class”? Anyone with a high school degree? Or is it those who just think they’re smarter than everyone else, “educated” or not?


6 posted on 01/15/2010 9:12:06 AM PST by hsalaw
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Never confuse schooling with education.

There are a whole bunch of ways to become educated. Some involve formal schooling.

Several of our most effective presidents, among them Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, had little or no formal schooling.


7 posted on 01/15/2010 9:13:27 AM PST by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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See my tagline! Just as you can lead a horse to water but can’t make him drink, so also you can send Obama to college but can’t make him think. Nor the rest of the self-proclaimed “educated class” either.


8 posted on 01/15/2010 9:17:29 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Obama is proof that you can send a fool to college, but you can't make him think.)
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Excellent read!

It is full of itself, and values too highly its skill sets, which are entertaining, but not on the optimum level of consequence... This class fooled itself, and much of the country, for which the country will not soon forgive it.

9 posted on 01/15/2010 9:19:54 AM PST by Rocky (Obama's ego: The "I's" have it.)
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It’s true they are educated beyond its intelligence.You can send some people to school but you can’t make them learn.


10 posted on 01/15/2010 9:20:52 AM PST by Vaduz
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What’s with this “educated clsss” nonsense. Democrats and liberals are some of the mose uneducated welfare leeching hicks on the planet.


11 posted on 01/15/2010 9:20:58 AM PST by avacado
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David Brooks notes that in the last year, something dire has happened: The public has turned decisively against the "educated classes" and all of their works.

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge turned decisively against the educated classes too.

12 posted on 01/15/2010 9:20:58 AM PST by Myrddin
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"As they chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke, it didn't take long for the two men to click"

"He compared him to Burke in his subtle complexity"


This is a joke, right? Brookes compared Obama to Sir Edumund Burke? What next, Obama is the next Adam Smith? This just shows how stupid Brookes is. How can you compare a statist to someone who advocated for free markets and less government? Heed this warning from Burke:

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
14 posted on 01/15/2010 9:25:25 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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Have always been and am proud to be what the liberals call “anti-intellectual.”


15 posted on 01/15/2010 9:32:01 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Screw the polar bears. What have polar bears ever done for me?)
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I also hope this is a wake-up call.

If such a shift arises from a recognition of a greater truth than themselves, rather than simply a rejection something they don’t prefer, there would be lasting hope. Otherwise their opinion is no better than the morality of an ruling class that thinks it is their job to determine what’s right and wrong.

The vote is deceiving, both for ruler and ruled.


16 posted on 01/15/2010 9:34:49 AM PST by cornelis
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That our "educated class" is educated beyond its intelligence, and mistakes mastery of its patois and attitude for wisdom and competence.

That is not quite it. Our "Educated Class" is no longer "educated". They are indoctrinated. Few conservative instructors survive to be tenured. Do any conservative students survive Journalsim "education"?

What does a "Doctor of Ethnocentrism or Sexuality" contribute to _ANYTHING_?

In order for the term "Educated" to have its meaning restored, the first start should be Engine Lathe or Welding Training for "Doctors" of Journalism, HyphenAmerican "Studies", and other such scams and frauds.

17 posted on 01/15/2010 9:36:01 AM PST by Gorzaloon (FOX NEWS-For people who are SICK OF SEEING The ONE..)
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Progressive education doesn’t make one erudite; it makes one pedantic, like David Brooks, like Obamao, like most of the intellectual class that pollutes the world with wrongheadedness. Obamao appeals to the intellectual class because of delusions of government omniscience, but he differs from many because his reasons for creative government stem from hate, not concern. Obamao isn’t about saving America, not even in the convoluted way most of our Ivy League progressives think. Obamao is all about using government to destroy America. It’s a fine line that may confuse most intellectuals, but average Americans, endowed with common sense intelligence, are figuring it out.


20 posted on 01/15/2010 9:38:22 AM PST by pallis
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How do we know Barry is part of the "educated class" in the first place?

A hermetic seal has been thrown around his entire post-high school education. We don't know what his major was, what classes he took or what his GPA was.

25 posted on 01/15/2010 10:19:43 AM PST by colorado tanker
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ping


28 posted on 01/15/2010 10:54:58 AM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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David Brooks is the guy that Mark Shields (on Lehrer's Hour(pBS)) pisses on his leg and tells him the rain is warm today.. and then they all discuss the weather..

Brooks is not too smart.. but knows where his graft is buttered..
All three are partners in crime..

36 posted on 01/15/2010 12:04:32 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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Ping to an interesting discussion of education.

Not exactly homeschool related in the usual way, but avoiding indoctrination and providing a real education is what we’re doing it for.


43 posted on 01/15/2010 1:40:15 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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as if those who oppose him are uneducated and/or without wisdom.


46 posted on 01/15/2010 2:17:09 PM PST by Chickensoup (We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
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