[Horatio Gates]

I've had this debate before with a local ER doc. For highly educated people some are pretty clueless about the real world

[dirtboy]

I've had this debate before with a local ER doc. For highly educated people some are pretty clueless about the real world

Bad doctors kill more people each year than guns.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"For highly educated people some are pretty clueless about the real world".

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Higher education can just as well be negative as positive, it all depends on who the educator is.

[PaRebel]

It is often misleading to call people with MDs and Ph.Ds "hihgly educated" although I realize that it is common practice.

I think a more accurate description of these people is "highly specialized".

I speak from experience having worked with both for a very long time. Some of these people are, in fact, highly educated, but most are not. They are highly specialized and most of them are so busy in their specialty that they have little time, or inclination, to pursue knowledge in any arena but their specialty.

So, the fact that you are the world's expert on the sphincter muscles of fruit flies does not mean that you much of anything about, let's say, guns, or anything else.

I long ago lost my sense of awe at people with lots of degrees. Many of them will astound you with their level of ignorance about many things. BTW, this is not from envy or sour grapes; I have an advanced degree, and come from a family of Ph.Ds. That's why I can speak with authority about the subject.