My Thoughts Always: I'm Not Educated

I'm not educated.  You heard me right!  I don't know a single thing and I can barely form a sentence because I'm not educated.  Their ain't no way I'm gonna allow yous to bring me down?  Darn it!  I can't even do improper sentence structure without being annoyed! My homonym is all wrong, double negatives aren't cool because two wrongs only make a right in Algebra, gonna isn't a word,  people who use "yous" annoy me, and it isn't  a question it's a statement or exclamation which means it should end with a period or an exclamation point.  A better sentence would be: I'm not going to let anyone bring me down.  I would end it with a period because I am not feeling angry in a manner in which I would scream.  If I used an exclamation it would change the inflection in my voice were I to read it aloud.

Anyhow, my husband refers to me as being educated when he converses with people. Those same people, state that because I do not have a college degree, I must  be uneducated.   I have to wonder what they must think of  George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they aren't "educated" either yet they ran our country and one was a lawyer. 

Before the internet I read a lot from books.  I still read a lot from books but now I've added internet and an e-reader as well.  In high school I read biographies about people like Golda Mier.  Gone With The Wind, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Follow the River were my favorite books.  Piers Anthony, who is my favorite author, is a word wizard.  A great deal of my writing form is because of Piers Anthony.

I love history so much that I collect history.  I have in my possession tons of family stories from 2,000 years ago to now.  My original family name was German and my family moved to England and became the Salisbury family which was a line of nobility.  Pocahontas (Rebecca) is my grandma and John Rolfe is my grandpa.

~I am so incredibly good at spelling.  Sure there are a few words that trip me up but I've never had to rewrite a school paper over spelling.


~English, I'm not the best but I'm not the worst either.  I did obtain A's and B's in my English classes. 

~I need a refresher, which I am doing online, but I'm pretty good at Algebra if I do say so myself.

~I studied journalism so I do an incredible job at research and I'm picky.  If a story is lacking, I will tell you.  I have nothing against you but a good story has detail that supports your main idea.  This is the exception because I'm a little contradictory here.

My point is, with the exception of a few careers, you can learn anything through resources other than college.  I would not, for instance, trust a surgeon who has never held a scalpel or forceps and if he has no clue what a sphygmomanometer is, I'd rather he didn't take my blood pressure either.  A college degree does not mean you are educated.  The knowledge you have acquired in life is your education.  Life has taught me that there can be complete idiots coming out of college too.  

College doesn't mean you are educated.  The fact that you have retained the knowledge and can speak in an intelligent manner is what I see as educated.  I suspect the same would be true of those of us who don't have that piece of  paper to show.