Education

[pegkerr]

Gacked from klig. I'd be interested to know what the level of formal education is among my LJ friends. I'm not snobby about education - I'm very well aware that a piece of paper is only part of the story.


[Poll #349908]

Leave details of your areas of study in the comments if you so wish.

Edited to add: I'm sorry I didn't have choices that fit some of the experiences that you have recounted, i.e., still in junior high, still in high school, finished some college but have no plans to complete, etc.

But I just wanted to say that you are all pretty damn impressive. It's been very interesting reading about the wide variety of your education and experience. Thank you, and congratulations to all those of you who have recently completed degrees!

Comments

[misia.livejournal.com]

There are some of us who bypassed the high school completion thing and still ended up with a degree or two, though. And there's never a space on a form for that, either.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

There's a space for it here--it just asks for your "highest level of completed formal education." It doesn't matter if you skipped graduating from high school, so long as you completed something higher.

It does, however, exclude the possibility of people who never finished high school and never went on to anything else. Some of whom actually hold professional jobs, read LiveJournals, and live in houses with floors, honest... :-)

[misia.livejournal.com]

Indeed they do. Rather nice houses, some of 'em, in my experience. Nicer than mine, anyway.

As you imply, people who didn't finish (or in some cases among the people I know for whom that is the case, even start) HS and didn't go in for any post-secondary education often resent not having that acknowledged as a legit standing, and resent the assumptions people make about them on the basis of their educational background. They've got good reason to.

But I occasionally get slightly tweaky about the common presumption that if one *has* gone in for post-secondary education, one must perforce *not* be a high-school dropout, too -- for some of the same reasons.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Good heavens! No offense was intended by the way the poll was worded, I assure you.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Oh, no offense taken! It's just an Amusing Thing that persistently comes to the attention of those of us who bailed out of the educational system early.