This video highlights a very important point, not all education is created equal. Some of the most brilliant, amazing philosophers I have ever met were Mexican and Guatemalan dishwashers at a grocery store. I have heard more wisdom from people without a college degree than with one. This does not mean college is worthless but it is not the only road towards being a "learned" person. The education system requires that we take another person's thoughts (professor) as an authority and sometimes we forget that we should be questioning everything, even what this authority figure seems to know. Just because someone has some letters at the end of their name does not make them more educated or more knowledgeable than the homeless person sleeping down the street. Wisdom is something learned from the world (classroom or no classroom), each person you meet is your teacher.
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