Poll: Poll: Are you educated

[VeNT]

not sure whats the highest really
I've a few GCSEs, a Btec First and a few City and Guild vocational quals (electronics mostly).

 

[MikeHunt79]

I is educated

 

[Damnations Fury]

Bachelors Degree for me. Stillwake up in cold sweat thinking I have coursework & exams to do.

 

[Marine Iguana]

I have nothing of any meaningful merit.

 

[HeX]

9 GCSE's
4 A-Levels
BSc(Hons)

Few random qualifications (MS ones and the like).

 

[Deific]

This is purely Qualitative or quantative


It doesn't prove anything

*Quantitative


I only have GCSEs, but I can spell better than someone with a Masters/PHD.

 

[Aero]

Masters not that I use it...

 

[semi-pro waster]

Why group a "3rd" with a "1st"??? (this might have been answered but I'm not going to go through 5 pages to find out). The difference between the two is immense!

Because I wasn't about to list every possible permutation of qualifications, there's a hard limit of 20 to a poll anyway even if I did feel like putting them all down. If you want to tell people the classification of your degree then that's up to you but if you're asked if you have a degree you can quite legitimately say yes whether you got a first or a third.

 

[Maccapacca]

BSC (Hons) in Quantity Surveying Consultancy
Chartered Surveyor MRICS

I need to vote twice

 

[Freefaller]

BEng - but I don't think it's a measure of how educated I am. You can't (IMO) measure education on academia or academic ability alone. It's a far bigger picture. Culture, travel, being socially and politically aware and so on. If having a degree or some qualifications makes you educated then it makes a bit of a farce of it all. Anyone can pass an exam.

 

[Nitefly]

BEng - but I don't think it's a measure of how educated I am. You can't (IMO) measure education on academia or academic ability alone. It's a far bigger picture. Culture, travel, being socially and politically aware and so on. If having a degree or some qualifications makes you educated then it makes a bit of a farce of it all. Anyone can pass an exam.

I think you can split intelligence neatly in 'raw intelligence', 'common sense' and 'effort'.

As for education, you can split that into 'knowledge studied', 'knowledge acquired' and 'cultural awareness'.

Educated is a clumsy term really, unless you are referrencing a specific subject.

 

[Freefaller]

Agreed entirely with your summation.

 

[Burnsy2023]

I think you can split intelligence neatly in 'raw intelligence', 'common sense' and 'effort'.

As for education, you can split that into 'knowledge studied', 'knowledge acquired' and 'cultural awareness'.

Educated is a clumsy term really, unless you are referrencing a specific subject.

How would you define common sense?

 

[Freefaller]

You can't really - however I wouldn't say it's linked to education.

Though I guess it could be argued that as you equip yourself with more knoweldge, you are able to make more sensible decisions, more timely risk assessments of a situation etc...

 

[reflux]

Masters in Design, BA in Graphic Design, A Levels and GCSEs. All that and I still can't get a job

 

[Number_25]

Currently studying a BTEC Extended Diploma in IT with a view of studying a BSc in Computer Science.

 

[Nitefly]

How would you define common sense?

The general ability to prioritise issues, look before you leap and set about tasks in a productive fashion.

Running out of time in an exam, reading too far into a subject at the detrinment of understanding other aspects and spending ages organising notes rather than actually learning them - all are classic examples of lacking common sense. The best skill within the broad term of common sense is the ability to identify what you need to know to do well at something. Then you can APPLY your raw intelligence appropriately rather than waste it.

I kind of think of it like an RPG game - each individual has a number of points distributed into common sense, raw intelligence (mathematical processing power - the 'brute strength' of intelligence) and effort undertaken (the time one can be bothered to work towards something). Everyone has a balance, but some people have more points to spend than others....!

For example, one of my friends was a bonafide genius but, as is common, totally lacked common sense. He spent all summer learning all of previous years criminal law course, only to find out our syllabus had completely changed and he had wasted all of his time. Regardless of his frequent headless chicken 'down the wrong garden path' routes, he could understand things quickly that I could not and put it a whopping 10 hours of library time a day, every day, even weekends. He deservedly got the first distinction ever on the course.

 

[Burnsy2023]

It's actually a very interesting question which I recently watched a TED talk on.

Common sense is the type of intelligence we rely on to navigate concrete, every day situations

Well worth watching this:

 

[kmufc77]

Modern Apprenticeship (Plastering)

NVQ II (Plastering)

NVQ III (Plastering)

whether this counts as me being educated, i dont know


Though have stopped plastering this year and looking for a career change, even though i know nothing else .

 

[Deific]

Modern Apprenticeship (Plastering)

NVQ II (Plastering)

NVQ III (Plastering)

Though have stopped plastering this year and looking for a career change, even though i know nothing else .

lol I got an image of an american western-era southern man saying, "plasterings all I know", in a cowboy accent...


I don't know why.