What do you imagine the world would be like if everyone had the same level of education?

Idontknow so I’ll follow it.

Just because everyone has the same level of education doesn’t mean everyone has the same marks.
Everyone would worry about something else and the world would adjust to be unfair again.

It would depend on the economy at the time. Plenty of well educated people fighting for jobs at McDonald’s. There has to be jobs waiting for them. Somebody would still need to collect trash by the curb and fix home problems and all kinds of jobs not associated with people with high educations. Who would get those jobs? and please don’t say Mexicans

It would be a better world if the education level would be higher.
It would be a lame world if education was pretty low.

There’d be less sexism.

sigh

@woodcutter I’m sorry, was that to my comment?

I don’t think everyone wants the same education. I have all the appropriate letters after my name and I don’t use them because I was sick of that world. I like my life with the dogs. There is no way everyone in this world is going to be equal. There are always some who achieve despite all difficulties and there are some who fail despite all advantages. And there are all those in the middle who succeed and fail depending on their own ambition and a little bit of luck thrown in as well. If all were paid the same amount of money why would anyone try to excell. If working at MacDonalds provided one with the same status in the community and money in the bank as brain surgery, how many would strive to become brain surgeons? I do not want to live in a world where my rewards are not directly proportionate to the amount of energy I expend on achievement.

This can be seen today within the ranks of Mensa. It does not really help eliminate prejudice or differences of opinion.

Human beings are capable of holding multiple contradictory trains of thought in their heads. Logic be damned.

I couldn’t say for sure, but I can say that people got along a hell of a lot better on campus than they did here in the real world. . .

We were all getting the same education, and we all treated each other much more respectfully than what I witness nowadays.

Campus life is much different, and I think education is a part of it.

Even spontaneous debates and arguments were more productive and respectful.

Even if people had roughly the same level of “intelligence,” people would still have vastly different political opinions, tastes, and levels of creativity. Maybe a little less poverty since more people will have a basic grasp of handling personal finances, but I don’t think the world would be all that different.

I have the traditional Liberal Arts education which held me in good stead in my profession and pleases me now with the volunteer work and interests I have at present.

However, yesterday I had a contractor here to do some heavy labor…remove post-Irene downed trees, dig huge holes in order to plant roses and refinish some damage to my pine floors.

Then he rewired a lamp with a three-way bulb and gave me a lesson on how to do it myself. There were issues of hot wire connections, pronged sockets, counterclockwise twisting of both the wires and the screws.

I could probably have learned how to do this if I had skipped French V and taken a course from the electrician’s union. Who’s smarter? How can you possibly define that?

cool thoughts, thanks.

@woodcutter, I would say jobs come about through ingenuity and a poor economy ought to be a hot bed for job creation in a world of very smart people. It only takes a handful of leaders to employ a country of capable people.
“Somebody would still need to collect trash by the curb and fix home problems and all kinds of jobs not associated with people with high educations. Who would get those jobs?” – maybe those jobs would go to the robots created by all the smart people?

@Simone_De_Beauvoir I agree. Education tends to kill ignorantisms. (eh. sexism, racism)

@rooeytoo “I like my life with the dogs.” – easy for you to say, your life with the dogs happens to include all the appropriate letters after your name. ;)
“I do not want to live in a world where my rewards are not directly proportionate to the amount of energy I expend on achievement.” – I don’t think it would have to be that way. We would have to figure something out.

@HungryGuy I imagine we would simply progress faster. Sometimes faster towards dead ends, I’m sure, but also faster towards any needed reparations.