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I don't get it
when educated people are pig ignorant about lives other than their own. Do they just not know anyone not just like them, or do they just not pay attention? Because I am a dropout. I should have an excuse to be ignorant. and sometimes I am. I don't have formal training in critical thinking, or other's cultures, or any of it. So if I can see how your educated, sophisticated intellectual ass is hanging out, what's your excuse?
I guess it must be either only knowing people like themselves, or not paying attention. If it is the first, how does that happen without *trying* to recuse yourself from the "others?" Are most people's surroundings much more homogenous? Is madison wisconsin some extreme example of melting pot diversity? I'd think just being at college would have given these people a chance to interact with people who are not just like them in all ways.
And if it is the second, how do you get by in life without noticing the lives of other people around you? Do you only ignore those different from you, or everyone? And how do you fit in to the world around you if you ignore so many people?
Is there some complexity here that explains why my alleged "betters" don't get other people?
I guess it must be either only knowing people like themselves, or not paying attention. If it is the first, how does that happen without *trying* to recuse yourself from the "others?" Are most people's surroundings much more homogenous? Is madison wisconsin some extreme example of melting pot diversity? I'd think just being at college would have given these people a chance to interact with people who are not just like them in all ways.
And if it is the second, how do you get by in life without noticing the lives of other people around you? Do you only ignore those different from you, or everyone? And how do you fit in to the world around you if you ignore so many people?
Is there some complexity here that explains why my alleged "betters" don't get other people?
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High school is where you are supposed to learn critical thinking. College is where you learn to write like people actually write for publications (or you are supposed to anyhow, I think U.S. colleges fail in this regard) and where you study more advanced topics in your chosen field by it academia, medicine, teaching, linguistics, foreign service, math, etc. Oh yeah, and you learn time management.
The things I learned about other folks came mostly outside the classroom. The classroom itself did include some interesting learnings and readings I wouldn't have otherwise encountered and interesting, adult discussions that couldn't be had in high school, but that wasn't really part of my goal as such.
The workload I experienced as High School part II (now with more independence!), but that's because we did blue book essays and other things at my high school that most folks don't do until college.
I did not learn how scholarship and publishing worked until I studied abroad at Edinburgh Uni my junior year. U.S. college is a failure in that regard. You are expected to figure it out yourself.
Anyhow, college can have a point to it, but it depends on the subjects you take.
For many it's just a hoop to jump through to get to the next hoop.