Arrogance (was RE: Degree Snobs)

Subject: Arrogance (was RE: Degree Snobs)
From: Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:41:57 -0400

Yikes!

I would hate to be your plumber.

I think I'm a little too old to fit in the GenX category.
(What is the cutoff anyway? I'm not "in the know".)
At any rate, perhaps you should only speak for yourself on this.

The reality is that the majority of folks in the US do not
have degrees, and as folks have discussed exhaustively already,
"formal" education does not = intelligence.

A.

PS. Folks, let's not forget professionalism in our posts.
--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
alexiap -at- sems -dot- com

>----------
>From: Matthew J Long[SMTP:mjl100z -at- mail -dot- odu -dot- edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 1997 12:04 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Degree Snobs
>
>...People who don't have
>degrees, generally, are blue collar workers. I am sorry, but I do think
>that I am smarter than Bubba the plumber. So my association of the concept
>of "no degree" correlates to "not that bright".
...
>Speaking for Generation X...

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