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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
I think it's even lower--something around 27% of the general population has a 4-year college degree? Since most jobs don't require a college degree or more than a few semesters of technical training, is it fair to call those people "under-educated?" When I hear that term, I typically think of people who didn't finish HS.
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Obviously, "under-educated" isn't a technical term or anything (although it goes without saying that nearly 50% of people are of below-average education) ... but "education" isn't just schooling, it includes trade work and knowledge of a skilled trade or field, too.
I'd consider a HS dropout who is a plumbing tradesman to be, on the whole, ahead of the average HS graduate in terms of applicable jobs "education", wouldn't you?
Let's not limit education to schooling.