[Closed] How educated are you?

I think some people might be confusing "education" with "qualifications"

In a non-argumentative way - surely qualifications come as a result of an education, no?
Agreed, some qualifications hold more merit than others, but [u]generally[/u] they are evidence of a persons education.
Discuss

DrP

What do you mean by "Educated"?

persons education.

I don't think I've got it too badly wrong after being awake for almost 24hrs.....

I take a simple grammatical error as a pass!

Enjoy your day Ti29er...... 🙄

DrP

Pile of GCSEs with good results, 4 a-levels with disappointing results (but enough to get me to my chosen uni), another holder of a desmond level BSc. Season with a few vocational qualifications.

Basically enough to get into my chosen job and stay there.

A Blue Peter badge for drawing a stamp when I was seven or eight.

Or

2:2 in BSc Civil Engineering with CAD (yes I was really lazy) which I have never used but seems to have been well respected when going for unrelated jobs and should get me onto a PGCE next year.

Also a Blue Peter badge;
Cycling Proficiency (96 out of 100 - probably my academic peak);
Various O Levels;
1 A level;
HND Material Technology;
BSc Metallurgy;
Assorted finance stuff

Most of what I've learnt though has probably come about in the last 5 years of doing a grown-up job!

As someone said above though, I've always just scraped through and wish I'd put a lot more into it when I was younger. Now work 12+ hour days and retirement and therefore bike riding when I feel like is still far, far away.....

a BA and an MA in Theoretical and Experimental Physics. yes, they gave me an arts degree... 😉

no blue peter badge though!

Dr midgebait BSc(Hons) MSc MIEMA

Summer MLTB
RAF Flying Scholarship

... and still a ****t 🙂

O' level Astronomy (grade C) -- really.

Not educated enough to know what ****ing tyres I should be using.

Degree in rock climbing but for some reason they put Metallurgy on the piece of paper - don't remember much of that! Post Grad in Marketing
no cycling profiency though - certificate or actual
assistant beaver leader

antigee, with a 'degree' in rock climbing, I'll put reasonable odds on you either having 'studied' at Sheffield or Leeds?

'degree' in rock climbing...'studied' at Sheffield or Leeds?

all predictable

Desmond in Geography from Durham, use of degree since uni = zero.

Since then I've gained an NVQ at one point in providing Energy Efficiency Advice and passed my ITIL v3. qualification in Release, Control and Validation. So I used to know a lot about Energy saving lightbulbs and cavity wall insulation and now I just know how to wind up 'techies'. 😉

BA Hons in Economics and Maths. Went to uni when I was 26 after doing a few poorly paid jobs but in general enjoying them and having no stress. Earning enough now but....

Never used anything I learned at uni in my job but a degree gave me the confidence that I am in fact quite intelligent.

If I could do things again I should really be doing something like engineering as I'm very practical.

6 highers

desmond in Beng , mech eng from dundee uni

and a "basic oilfield technology" course courtesy of my employer ....

currently on a 2 year training scheme to become a field engineer so shall startpicking up useful qualifications shortly - only thing from my degree ive used since i graduated 2 years ago (how time passes) is my excel skills !

I've got an H licence

best
fun
ever

Define educated? I have a pile of certificates from school and uni with some letters and numbers on but that just meant I passed the exams. There's more to education than the acquisition of facts, especially pointless ones about obscure chemicals. I think real educations is teaching people how they can acquire their own facts and knowledge.

For the record (and because I'm reasonable proud of them) 10 GCSEs (8xA*, 1xA and 1xB), 4 A levels (AAAB), and a first class Mchem.

WOW, my cycling proficiency just isn't cutting the mustard..

I think real educations is teaching people how they can acquire their own facts and knowledge.

Qualifications are proof and measure of attainment in an education system. Schooling is therefore a [i]vehicle [/i]for an individual's education.

Education isn't simply the acquisition of knowledge. It's also the application of knowledge.

Cycling Proficiency
County Certificate for swimming
10 O Levels ['78]
4 A Levels & 2 S Levels ['80]
MA, PhD in Natural Sciences
MBA
Some professional qualification or other

... and only maths bits & the first two have been of the slightest use.

13 GCSEs
4 A Levels
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
First Class degree in History
MA in Medieval History
MA in Archaeology and Heritage
and i still earn less then almost everyone I know from school, especially those who left at 16...
Plus I'm nowhere near to paying off my student/graduate loans 🙁

3 unspeakably poor A levels.

Geoff in a geography/ecology BSc. I also have a certificate in hedge-laying. Did get me a job, so the knowledge got used, but I didn't enjoy the job much.

Currently taking an MSc in working for the man!

Educated enough to be horrified by the spelling and grammar of my peers. And I am aware of the fact that mine isn't perfect.

and i still earn less then almost everyone I know from school, especially those who left at 16...
Plus I'm nowhere near to paying off my student/graduate loans

I wonder why? 😉

MA in Medieval History
MA in Archaeology and Heritage

Cycling Proficiency

Hey, I failed my cycling proficiency!!!!
Hardly surprising really.

tinsy - Member

WOW, my cycling proficiency just isn't cutting the mustard..

Oh it really is amongst the pile of worthless degrees on here (mine included)

I got my Grade 3 swimming certificate. Never progressed as far as swimming in my pyjamas though.

[i]Desmond in Geography from Durham[/i]
Your preferred seating position in the Applebey Lecture theatre please?
(back row, left hand side, against the padded wall bit. 30 min video on chromosomes = 30 min nap. Lovely.

i never got swimming certs .... i broke my arm both years we had it at school ......

although i reckon i could knock out 1500m in the pool with more finesse than most folk i went to school who got the certs with who seem to be lager louts these days ! so certificates mean nothing 😉

* that is conclusive evidence 😉

BSc Physics, MSc Computer Science, and hopefully in a few months a PhD in Computer Science...

Cycling proficiency passed in '78ish - broken body suggests i maybe should have failed. 🙁

Coca cola soccer skills badges.

A bundle of o'levels and a couple of cse's in the rubbish subjects i couldn't be arsed with (well that's what i told my mum).

C&G advanced craft, NVQ3 and a load of teaching quals.

Learnt more in 20 years on a building site than that lot put together. A year on site should be compulsory (to learn to sing, fart and whistle if for no other reason).

surely qualifications come as a result of an education, no?

I'm not sure that how qualified you are to do your job, necessarily reveals your level of education.

Does being qualified to drive a JCB, automatically suggest that you were educated to a different level to someone who is only qualified to use a cartridge nail gun ?

By "how educated are you?" I took the OP to mean what level of education did you achieve, eg, Os, As, further education, degrees, PhDs, etc. not how qualified you are to do your job. Certainly I would say that someone's level of education has a tendency to give rather different information about that person, than their professional/trade qualifications.

Thanks for the replies.
The OP just wanted to know what level of education people had. The OP, having read a fair few threads was beginning to think this forum was being inhabited by people unable to conjugate a verb, punctuate a sentence or formulate a coherent argument. However, the OP has been pleasantly surprised by the educated masses of STW.

Ooh, I forgot - I also have a Blue Peter badge, I got it last year when I did some work on a show.

By the way, on the Dr / PhD thing - PhD is something that American people put after their name to show they have a PhD, Dr is something that British people put before their name to show they have a PhD. So the people moaning about PhD being the correct title rather than doctor are probably just affected by US TV programs and celebrities.

Joe
(and obviously I don't use Dr in non-professional life - except when I want to open a bank account etc., but I do in some work things where it is vaguely important)

was beginning to think this forum was being inhabited by people unable to conjugate a verb, punctuate a sentence or formulate a coherent argument. However, the OP has been pleasantly surprised by the educated masses of STW.

I have known people educated to PhD level who would struggle to argue their case, despite an impressive ability to punctuate a sentence. I too, have been "surprised by the educated masses of STW", unfortunately for me the experience has been more of a disappointment, than a pleasant one. As someone who neither knows how to "conjugate a verb" (although I might give it a go if you showed me how - after reminding me what a "verb" was) nor posses "punctuation skills", I find for example, the lack of double negatives on STW really rather depressing. Certainly I have found the need to reign in more and more my use of colloquial English, despite feeling far more comfortable using it when attempting to make a point - specially when I feel I'm on a bit of a roll. Just as well that I have plenty of time to be myself, when I'm not rubbing shoulders with PhD wallahs

I suppose in the traditional "academic" sense I am highly educated. BSc (First Class), MSc (with Distinction), PhD.

But in many other respects I would consider myself pretty thick relative to my STW brethren. I guess average general knowledge, but no interest in politics or world affairs or anything remotely cultural - not read a book for years etc

Bsc first class hons
E for A level politics
cse ENGLISH - long story
PGCE
Phd started left after a year long story but I did love her

I can just about tie my shoelaces, but i'm very very happy 😉

Sorry, I didn't understand the question? 😕

Does it matter? If I make a list of things that have given me the most satisfaction in life none of them has resulted in me being given a certificate to prove it. Equally I don't have pieces of paper to prove I can do some of the things I do best and that have made me lots of cash. Even thinking quite hard I can't think of an occasion whan I've had to show anyone the pieces of paper I do have.

We live in a world where the value of all the bits of paper people have been listing are so devalued that the real opportunities for young people lie in fields where you don't need (m)any pieces of paper at all. Guess who is happiest and making the most money out a lumberjack and his highly qualified but underemployed brother.

Guess who is happiest and making the most money out of a lumberjack and his highly qualified but underemployed brother.

Not sure 😕

Give us a clue..............does the lumberjack : cut down trees, eats his lunch, goes to the lavatory, on Wednesdays goes shopping, and has buttered scones for tea ❓

He does all of that and more Ernie. However he has no wish to be a girlie and contents himself with contenting them.

[i]"However he has no wish to be a girlie"[/i]

Ahhh..............wrong answer

🙁

^^^^ I wish I could make sense out of all that 🙂