As a registered contributor to DemocracyForums, how educated am I?

[suralos]

a. High School;
b. Bachelor's;
c. Master's;
d. PhD.
e. Other.

[Pookie]

The only people I've seen who ask something like that are high-schoolers. Sorry!
Purrs,
Pookie

[preservanation]

I can do my guzzintas.
Two guzzinta four two times, two guzzinta six three times...

[BoogyMan]

Wow pres, you can really do that cipherin' stuff.

[Pookie]

Freakin' genius! Who'd a thunk it?
Purrs,
Pookie

[NortheastCynic]

I'm in my third year at Northeastern University [five year school, due to our 'co-operative education program]. I plan on going to law school afterward.

-NC

[PatrickHenry]

I have a university degree.

Not that it ever helped in my career as a carpenter.

Tip to teens: Don't think a psychology degree will help you find a job...

[Saigio]

I'm just getting out of high school in a few weeks.
However, I feel that I've learned more through self teaching, talking to people, and doing research myself then I have in school. Education isn't just about school work, as many can tell you.

So, why the intrest? Desperatly need a topic for a school paper, and denizens of the internet is your best shot? Just wondering.

[Truth_and_Power]

Surely this is a lead-in for more insults.

[Buck Laser]

Surely this is a lead-in for more insults.
Now why would you think that? :madlaugh::evil:

[Buck Laser]

I forgot to add that you didn't have a place for us junior high school dropouts to register. And I worked SO hard to hoist myself all the way up to Thursday Assistant Manager of the Wal-Mart in Arkadelphia! Ain't much progress possible for us uneddicated folkses.

[sam]

I have a university degree.

Not that it ever helped in my career as a carpenter.

Tip to teens: Don't think a psychology degree will help you find a job...

I'm with you on that one PH; I've been in accounting/business my whole career. But I loved my classes, especially the physiological psych class I took my senior year.......it was all about the functions of the brain; amazing.

[Pookie]

I have two degrees, one in engineering and the other in climatology. Now I'm an armed security officer, go figure.
LOL!!
Purrs,
Pookie

[Wndrtch]

I have two degrees, one in engineering and the other in climatology. Now I'm an armed security officer, go figure.
LOL!!
Purrs,
Pookie

Cool!

A chic with an engineering degree! :thumbsup:

Who says girls can't do math?

[PostmodernProphet]

I have two degrees, one in engineering and the other in climatology. Now I'm an armed security officer, go figure.
LOL!!
Purrs,
Pookie
hey Pook....is that rock climba-tology?

[Pookie]

ROFL! No, I fall off rocks too well. Boy, that tends to hurt. Yeah, I do math! But I'm more of a writer. Climatology is totally fascinating. When the "Perfect Storm" hit in the Atlantic in 1991, that was just unreal. Wooo!
Haven't seen anything like that since.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Buck Laser]

ROFL! No, I fall off rocks too well. Boy, that tends to hurt. Yeah, I do math! But I'm more of a writer. Climatology is totally fascinating. When the "Perfect Storm" hit in the Atlantic in 1991, that was just unreal. Wooo!
Haven't seen anything like that since.
Purrs,
Pookie
My cousin's husband is retired from NOAA. He's not a climatologist, but he spent many years in public relations, explaining NOAA's work to the public. In 2004, he began writing a book on the 1900 Galveston hurricane, and Katrina pretty much blew away all interest in something that happened over a hundred years ago, even if it was the worst natural disaster ever to befall the US.

We're incredibly fortunate that we haven't had to deal with the wholesale destruction of earthquakes, volcanoes or tsunamis. Hurricanes are bad enough.
PS: sorry for going OT.

[Pookie]

That is so cool! I was thinking about doing a book on The Perfect Storm but Sebastian Junger beat me to it.
Rats.
Purrs,
Pookie

PS. Sorry off-topic too. We'll get back on track.

[sam]

What kind of engineering Pookie? My neighbor is in robotics and is now in the process of developing a robot that will have capabilities that exceed even my imagination.

Sounds like a great field, as well as the climatology. What do you think about the
global warming/climate change arguments?

[Pookie]

Well, I am a structural engineer, in other words, I can build things and know WHY certain things are built a certain way. Make sense?
The global warming and climate change arguments have to be split in two.
One is global warming. One thing we have to understand is there are climate changes.
This can be argued as global warming.
Polar ice caps diminishing, warmer weather during winter, this happens. However, with this change, we need to look at the atmosphere and see there are more storms. You can see how many areas were affected by this.

However, I do not see this as the usual global warming argument, I see it as climate changes which are natural to our Earth.

And I must say that I try to protect our Earth by leaving a smaller footprint.
The more we can do to help our environment, the better.

Does that make any sense? If not, please feel free to nail me and make me explain more, and I will answer all your questions.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Troubadour]

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[apdst]

you didn't have a place for us junior high school dropouts to register.

That's why I didn't vote.

[firefox]

I just earned my BA in political science yesterday!

[DamnYankee]

As a registered contributor to DemocracyForums, how educated am I?

Well educated beer drinker.

[Buck Laser]

I just earned my BA in political science yesterday!
Congratulations! You know more now than you will ever know for the rest of your life. :clapper:

[Pookie]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYY!
Congratulations!!
So happy to hear this.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Easy90]

Education is...

One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
William Lowe Bryan

Hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician, and writer.

Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
Kenneth G. Johnson

A form of self-delusion.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.
Josiah Stamp

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Prof. Irwin Edman

[Muser]

Cool!

A chic with an engineering degree! :thumbsup:

Who says girls can't do math?

Sure they can, but many choose not to - according to this recent article in the Boston Globe:

Why aren't there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren't interested. (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/18/the_freedom_to_say_no/?page=full)

P.S.
Pookie, you go, girl!

[Deadshot]

I've got a B.A. in History with a minor in Criminal Justice. I'm going to be getting my Master's in Education, which I just started.

[lily]

I just earned my BA in political science yesterday!

Congrats, Firefox. I know you worked hard for this.

[Pookie]

Thanks! I'm actually not as dumb as I look.
Oh crap I can hear members falling off their chairs laughing at me.
Fine, fine..........LOL!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAYY Firefox!!! Way to go!
Purrs,
Pookie

[Pookie]

I've got a B.A. in History with a minor in Criminal Justice. I'm going to be getting my Master's in Education, which I just started.

Wow. My Mom had a Master's in education. How wonderful! Let me know how it goes, okay?
Purrs,
Pookie

[Milton Bradley]

I am effectively operating on an eigth grade education, as my High School days were rather reminicent of the television show Welcome Back Kotter.


My High School had a vocational program called Occupational Work Experience ( O.W.E. ), and it was literally just like the tv program potrayed. Totally disfunctional, and conterproductive. However, I do cite that program, and my non attendance to regular scooling with my lack of indoctrination into Group Think.


The things I see from outside looking in. :help:

[4Reaganomics]

Kerkorian had an eigth grade education and became unbelievably prosperous as have others.

I have heard more than a fair share of stories of people that were capable of sending their children to a top 25 school and who were capable of moving to a wealthy community.

The number one key to success at times will be activity. What I mean by it is that you can be working 60 hour work weeks and be completely active, but you might not be active in the right way. It is imperative to constantly think of ways to better your financial situation and to plan things efficiently.

On average, people get a ten percent increase in pay when they switch jobs.

If you put that car payment in your 20s into a mutual fund investing in the S and P every month until your 60 then you will be a multi-millionaire when you retire.

Stay out of bad debt, keep brainstorming of ways to earn more, and pursue happiness.

[namguy]

a. High School;
b. Bachelor's;
c. Master's;
d. PhD.
e. Other.

A.

[Mia]

I have a university degree.

Not that it ever helped in my career as a carpenter.

Tip to teens: Don't think a psychology degree will help you find a job...

Actually it does. A degree of any nature opens doors unavailable to those without one.

It shows employers you have certain traits that are desirable to them.

If you mean in the field, well then yeah, it doesn't help much. One could make as much waiting tables.

However, it will get you an office job with a decent salary and many companies will pay for your advanced degrees and give you flex time while you attain them.

[Pookie]

You don't have to be educated to be smart. My Dad always said, "There's a lot of college-educated idiots out there. Don't be one."
Funny how you grow through life's experiences and realize...Your parents were right after all!!
Purrs,
Pookie

[Mia]

You don't have to be educated to be smart. My Dad always said, "There's a lot of college-educated idiots out there. Don't be one."
Funny how you grow through life's experiences and realize...Your parents were right after all!!
Purrs,
Pookie


Very true. I was speaking to the work force. A degree shows delayed gratification, endurance, persistence, a lot of traits employers want.

But I totally believe one can learn as much or more through self-study. I had a convo recently with a woman with a masters and more field experience than I.

She didn't know that borderline is it's own distinct disorder now - that's at least 10 year old info, so whoever approved her to be a PhD candidate needs to take another look.....:scared:

[namguy]

Actually it does. A degree of any nature opens doors unavailable to those without one.

It shows employers you have certain traits that are desirable to them.

If you mean in the field, well then yeah, it doesn't help much. One could make as much waiting tables.

However, it will get you an office job with a decent salary and many companies will pay for your advanced degrees and give you flex time while you attain them.

It does and it doesn't. I never had the desire to work behind a desk, no matter how good the pay was. I believe at one time a college education certainly did help in the job market, but I don't believe it plays quite that of an important role as it once did in the general search for a job. Today it's more like who you know as opposed to what you know in finding a good job. Years ago I was doing work that called for a college education, it was in law enforcement. Now, where we reside, if you want to be a police officer, a regular cop, it's now a pre requirement that one has a college degree. Personally I don't believe it takes college to be a police officer, what it takes is intuitive reactions.