re: An interesting take away from this event.

Go ahead and get those guys to maintain the electrical grid. Or develop vaccines. Or a myriad of other stuff.

Don’t lump the blue hairs with a major in lesbian basket weaving in with engineers and scientists and others who worked hard to attain their next level knowledge.
Takes all kinds of fruit to make a fruit salad


ETA: a diploma, or lack thereof, doesn’t make you smart or dumb. I’ve met men without a ged who had incredible knowledge in their field and were smart as a whip, and I’ve met people with doctorates that couldn’t understand simple concepts that didn’t fit their worldview.

A piece of paper don’t mean much in the thick of things. It’s about what’s between your ears