Mike Rowe has some very passionate feelings about "uneducated" trump voters

[ProudModerate2]

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What the hell is this suppose to mean ?
Many of us worked pretty-damn hard over 4 to 6 years to earn our degree.

[Seriously?]

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What the hell is this suppose to mean ?
Many of us worked pretty-damn hard over 4 to 6 years to earn our degree.

Street smarts vs. Book Smarts.

There are people that learn on the job in the trades through apprenticeship programs. Some people work themselves up organizationally from within after becoming immersed in institutional knowledge. There's not just one path to the top.

[RFayette]

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What the hell is this suppose to mean ?
Many of us worked pretty-damn hard over 4 to 6 years to earn our degree.

Street smarts vs. Book Smarts.

There are people that learn on the job in the trades through apprenticeship programs. Some people work themselves up organizationally from within after becoming immersed in institutional knowledge. There's not just one path to the top.

This is true, though the other interesting aspect is that many skilled trades require some "book smarts" too.

Take a look at the courses required to become an electrician for instance (taken alongside an apprenticeship):
http://www.iowacentral.edu/industrial_technology/electrical_apprenticeship/index.asp

While many of these classes are hands-on, no doubt a significant amount of technical reading is also required.  I certainly think it's fallacious to think that people who are "book smart" aren't found in the trades, and vice versa with respect to street smarts.  The reality is that ability is distributed greatly across all educational and occupational strata, though there are often analytical intelligence barriers for some careers (I doubt there are many physicists with a below-average IQ, for instance).

[ProudModerate2]

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What the hell is this suppose to mean ?
Many of us worked pretty-damn hard over 4 to 6 years to earn our degree.

Street smarts vs. Book Smarts.
There are people that learn on the job in the trades through apprenticeship programs. Some people work themselves up organizationally from within after becoming immersed in institutional knowledge. There's not just one path to the top.

That's not what I meant.
The author says : "involve the purchase of a diploma."
So the author makes it sound as if people do nothing (no endless study & hard work), but instead just buy(pay) to get a diploma.

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What the hell is this suppose to mean ?
Many of us worked pretty-damn hard over 4 to 6 years to earn our degree.

Street smarts vs. Book Smarts.
There are people that learn on the job in the trades through apprenticeship programs. Some people work themselves up organizationally from within after becoming immersed in institutional knowledge. There's not just one path to the top.

That's not what I meant.
The author says : "involve the purchase of a diploma."
So the author makes it sound as if people do nothing (no endless study & hard work), but instead just buy(pay) to get a diploma.

I guess one difference is that with traditional learning, you are paying for a degree.

If you are in the trades, there is some classroom learning, but it's kept to a minimum. In general, you are getting paid while you are learning on the job. That may be the distinction that he was drawing.

[Wisconsin+17]

Totally agree with Mike Rowe here.

[RI]

More like the welder can only cling to his money for his only sense of self worth while hating "those people" and feeling like the "world is out to get him" because he has no education and doesn't understand the world/the economy/everything else.

I'm sure we'd do just fine if there were no welders. Your characterization of all welders as paranoid, delusional, and ignorant is why you aren't a Trump supporter.


One is elitist and the other is anti-intellectual. Both of them are driven by hate for whatever isn't them.

In general though the less educated you are the more you are willing to go with your gut/base feelings and not understand how the larger world works around you and more willing to blame "others" for your problems.

Tons of people with degrees, even advanced degrees, do this too.

[Desroko]

Who?

/googles

Oh, a reality TV hack whose shtick is wallowing in poo. Is there an "Ignore Thread" feature?

[Badger]

I always suspected the despite his amazing narration voice the Mike Rowe was an a$$hole.

Point proven.