Reply #115: Sorry here, too. The belittling is a perception.

[Trillo]

What is belittling is the multiple replies that the answer is always more education.

Some of us will never go back to school (without a gun held against us), suggesting that is the only alternative is simply insulting. I have about 1200 (estimate of the present moment, many others have been disposed of long ago) books at home, many of them read, many of them dreck, but just because I'm a high school dropout (badge I proudly wear even though it isn't the precise truth), indeed was trained by multiple expulsions that dropping out was the only way to approach life, doesn't mean anything regarding accumulated knowledge.

So I took the educators' best personal advice and ran with it, so what? That lesson so many schools sought to impress is deeply embedded, it will, with hope, pass on the day I die.

The last thing I, and I presume many others (since psychology 101 taught me that I was much more similar to others than different) want to hear about is how education is the be all end all holy grail of everything that ails.

That is nothing more than naked propaganda.