Do you need a degree to be educated ?

@MarkPaul [quote]confirms a certain level of access to information has been achieved.
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Everyone has access to information.
Having access is not achievement.

@Budwick No, this is incorrect. Start investigating the world for yourself instead of passing around memes, repeating cliches, and defending your limited thinking to avoid any effort.

In the real world, many people are shut off from information through their own limitations, either self-imposed or through no fault of their own, government control ("think" about North Korea as ONLY 1 extreme example), and social/environmental conditions.

Bringing information to society such as deploying the Internet, opening a library, etc. is indeed an achievement and anyone who thinks otherwise is most likely speaking from a small mind orientation that resembles an uneducated state. Perhaps such a person could benefit from earning a degree.

@MarkPaul he was making more of a semantic point (lol). its more accurate to say that the degree denotes a certain level of information has been learned, they're more likely to be specialized.

@Zaxel He's basically saying "everyone has access to information" and that's cavalier at best and completely wrong and self-absorbed at worse.

I agree with your point that a degree generally establishes a degree of specialization.

@MarkPaul well yeah thats wrong on his part for sure

@MarkPaul #1 We're not in North Korea.
#2 Opening a library is indeed an achievement.

But you weren't talking about opening libraries.
You said [quote]a degree confirms a certain level of access to information has been achieved.[/quote]
Sounds more like GOING to the library was the 'achievement.

I suppose what you wrote isn't what you meant,
but, you're an unlimited thinker with a degree so,
I wouldn't guess that you made a mistake.

@Budwick North Korea is in the world. If you had a degree, you might know that. If you had access to information you would definitely know that. Finally, the original question doesn't stipulate where "here" is.

I suppose you don't know what you are talking about. But, tbh, that was just a hunch, until now.

@MarkPaul That's some fancy tap dancing! Especially for an uneducated North Korean!

@Budwick Just keep drinking the soup...