{"id":2863,"date":"2018-04-07T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2018-04-07T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:57:34","slug":"uneducated-the-lefts-favorite-pejorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Uneducated&#8217;: The Left&#8217;s Favorite Pejorative"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The left wants to keep up the great lie that you need a college education to be happy and successful, and moreover as a prerequisite for holding any sort of an opinion.\u00a0\u00a0Leftists mock the idea of an autodidact and any form of self-education.\u00a0\u00a0In their minds, &#8220;real&#8221; knowledge can only be spoon-fed to you within the great halls of an institution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an autodidact myself, I&#8217;ve run into old acquaintances who do indeed mock the idea that one can educate oneself. Even worse is the disdain they exhibit for &#8216;real world&#8217; experience. These are credentialed academics teaching at eastern universities.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found them to be shallow, ill-informed, and, from my perspective, uneducated in anything but, maybe, the narrow area of study their degree is in. Yet for some reason they think they are &#8216;experts&#8217; on everything else also.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2018\/03\/uneducated_the_lefts_favorite_pejorative.html\">&#8216;Uneducated&#8217;: The Left&#8217;s Favorite Pejorative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left wants to keep up the great lie that you need a college education to be happy and successful, and moreover as a prerequisite for holding any sort of an opinion.\u00a0\u00a0Leftists mock the idea of an autodidact and any form of self-education.\u00a0\u00a0In their minds, &#8220;real&#8221; knowledge can only be spoon-fed to you within the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Uneducated&#8217;: The Left&#8217;s Favorite Pejorative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,71,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-higher-ed","category-intolerance","category-war-on-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}