If she's so educated and professorial, why can't she use that ten pound brain to figure out how to talk to us rubes in a way that we'll understand? Maybe all these smarty smarts out there aren't all that smart and they just want to play act the part.
I've never met a farmer or tradesman or homemaker or any other person of "modest circumstances" that is turned off by an educated person who treats then with common decency and respect.
“I’ve never met a farmer or tradesman or homemaker or any other person of “modest circumstances” that is turned off by an educated person who treats then with common decency and respect. “
me neither. even though i’ve got two degrees in computer science, i’ve never had trouble relating to and appreciating folks with less formal education. there are many kinds of education and many kinds of skills and capabilities, and formal education is not the end-all and be-all ...
i appreciate and admire the knowledge and skills people have obtained by doing things and learning on their own, and i love to learn from them about things i don’t know about, ranging from automobile mechanics to farming to self-made businessmen ... i have friends from all walks of life and particularly cherish those that have led different lives than i have, yet are still open to admitting me, a stranger in effect, to their worlds ...