There is difference between being educated and having an education.

It's hard to survive a Western lifestyle without literacy and numeracy - so even the most basic of primary school education is a bare minimum.

But would you like doctors to treat you if they hadn't studied medicine and uni and done their practise as interns?
If you needed a lawyer would you want one who had never studied law?
Would you trust the research of a self-proclaimed scientist who knew nothing about scientific method?

When we call someone "educated" it is too broad a term to mean much, but it usually means they've completed something at a tertiary level and have learned how to research and evaluate. These are useful skills in all aspects of life, even if the qualification is in the humanities or from a low-grade uni.

🤔 Fair to an extent, but my bachelors was rigorous.. it was not easy to merely ‘pass the classes’. Also often well-rounded knowledge is abstractly useful in a roundabout way that differs from informational application.

That’s like when dumb people say “but I’m street smart “.