{"id":9986,"date":"2011-02-05T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2011-02-05T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T23:07:21","slug":"credentialed-vs-educated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=9986","title":{"rendered":"Credentialed vs Educated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H<\/strong>ave credentials, ie, where you graduated from, become more important than actually getting educated?<\/p>\n<div>Considering almost everyone appointed by the current Administration has a fancy degree in something or other from some\u00c2\u00a0 impressive Ivy League college or other, and have no actual experience in anything useful, like having ANY kind of a job outside of government, I think it is a distinct possibility, and a big problem.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">============================================<\/div>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2011\/01\/uncredentialed-wonder\" target=\"_blank\">Uncredentialed Wonder<\/a><\/h1>\n<div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2011\/01\/uncredentialed-wonder\" target=\"_blank\">Jan 25, 2011<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2011\/01\/uncredentialed-wonder\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Scalia<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;I wonder if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really good for America, though. To become educated<\/strong> is a marvelous thing; to have the opportunity to study is a privilege  too many take for granted. But have we become a society that places too  much weight on the attainment of a diploma, which sometimes indicates  nothing more than an ability to keep to a schedule and follow a  syllabus, and underappreciates the ability to wonder, to strike out on  an individual path, and to learn on one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own? When did non-conformists  become so unromantic and undervalued?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">============================================<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have credentials, ie, where you graduated from, become more important than actually getting educated? Considering almost everyone appointed by the current Administration has a fancy degree in something or other from some\u00c2\u00a0 impressive Ivy League college or other, and have no actual experience in anything useful, like having ANY kind of a job outside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9997,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}