Note that the praise was not especially earnest.

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    Attending prestigious does not inherently make him well educated. Especially when one of the professors says you are, and I quote, “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had”.

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      “Well educated” in the sense that he got an education in prestigious places, not that he was a good student. The worst doctor to come out of Johns Hopkins is not going to be a good doctor because of it.

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      It does in fact make him “well educated.” He’s not smart, learned, well-read, or thoughtful. It’s just a fact, it’s not something that can be debated. No one with a community college degree will ever be well educated and no one with an Ivy League degree will ever not be well educated.

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        A person who attended an Ivy League school has had the OPPORTUNITY to become well educated. But it’s possible to graduate without making any use of that opportunity. Especially if you’re a cheating cheater who cheats from the get-go, and is only interested in staying out of the military and social climbing.

        Meanwhile a person can cobble together an excellent education at community colleges with a transfer to a state university, if they really care about learning and having a well-rounded intellect, choose their classes and professors carefully, and go beyond the regular expectations in coursework.

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          No, mere matriculation and conferring of a degree makes that individual, definitionally, we’ll educated.

          You don’t have to like basic facts for them to be true. This is a good life lesson for you.

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            Okay you’re welcome to say they’re “definitionally we’ll educated” because that tells me all I need to know about you. Shoddy scholarship is clearly your hallmark.