Originally posted by Starlight
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The resolution is very simple. Progressives are fine with high school schooling for all. At a pinch they might include community colleges as well, but to let the unwashed masses into the hallowed halls of their elite universities? Perish the thought!
An education teaches both knowledge and thinking skills. Its primary purpose is not as a status badge.
I'll grant that progressives to tend to respect the opinions of educated experts... that's because we know how much of a difference education and expertise make.
But it is certainly a reasonable question why the conservative Christian parts / red states of the US are so... unusual... in their views compared to the rest of the Western world. Part of the answer indeed appears to be that the people in those areas are substantially less educated.
But it is certainly a reasonable question why the conservative Christian parts / red states of the US are so... unusual... in their views compared to the rest of the Western world. Part of the answer indeed appears to be that the people in those areas are substantially less educated.
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