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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

To !@#$%!: I am sure you have noticed (as have I) the amount of people employed by publications of all stripes who are painfully ignorant as well as horrendous writers, and I am sure the bulk of them (especially in the newspapers) have been through the degree programs of some of our nations "finest" institutions. It gives you the piece of paper for playing the game; it cannot make you a good writer if you just don't "have it."

yes man, there are a lot of animals out there unfortunately, iand college is not the holy grail of enlightentment, but i have to say though that most TRULY IGNORANT people i've met are those who didn't have any college. not that all college-free people are so, only that the statistics are heavily in slanted in that direction. college-educated people TEND to have a more open mind about unknown subjects while the less educated tend to feel threatened by what they ignore. i know college is a lot like summer camp for grownup kids (i taught college while in gradschool), and while many professors are a bunch of blowhards more interested in covering up their insecurities, every now and then you run into a star that can revolutionize the way you see the world and think about things (and im not talking about fucking the prof, ha ha).

also some of the most interesting/exciting/specfuckingtacular conversations i've had with other people have been a) in college, b) in gradschool. everywhere else, especially in this country, knowledge and intellectual activity are held pretty much in contempt.

also- i think you either had a great highschool (was it private? or a good school district?) or were too smart for the college you attended, or both.