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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 3173633, member: 173"]
I’d recommend you listen to about 20 minutes of call ins on WFAN before you allow yourself to feel New York is superior to Alabama.  Theres a lot of stupid people everywhere.

Plus, what we define as “education” is an incredibly narrow slice of what you need to function in life - so part of the issue is that the local knowledge useful in different areas isn’t always recognizable to outsiders.  Knowledge of the NYC transportation system isn’t particularly useful on a chicken farm in Anniston, AL - knowing how to handle a bird without getting attacked is very useful. 
Additionally, a HUGE amount of what you “know” is actually just memorized facts without a whole lot of critical thinking.  I recently had a friend challenge me to prove that the earth is round, not flat (not because he thought it was flat - he was successfully proving how little critical thought I’d put into earth being round).  I was able to do it, but it actually took weeks of researching and working out the math.

My conclusion after that was most people only “know” what they’ve been taught about virtually everything where they don’t have real world experience.  There’s not a lot of critical thought that has been applied.  As a result, most people are stupid about most things.  The sign of a truly educated person isn’t in their ability to make fun of “stupid” people while exulting their intelligence.  A truly educated person takes the same position as Socrates; the only thing I know is that I know nothing.
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