Education Level

[OmnicronPercei8]

I think it's relative to the amount of education you have yourself. I am male with my BS and I would date a woman who had at least a HS diploma to her Masters. I believe if you go above or below those lines then it's like dating too far out of your age range. You're just not going to have enough in common.

[Yet another guy]

Higher education is better than lower but it makes very little difference and I don't give a crap about how it compares to my own. I almost have my MSc now. I probably won't be going for PhD since there's work to do and money to be earned. I could just as well date either a high school drop out or a multiple PhD scientist.

[Henry123]

I knew someone who achieved a third in their degree. It doesn't bother me, so why should it bother you? lol

Were you in a relationship with this person?

I wonder what his thoughts were.

[BackUpOrGetStng]

I think the 3 dumbest people I know all have Master's degrees in..get this..Education. You only have to be as intelligent as a 4th grader to teach 3rd grade though.

I don't put any stock in formal education. I'm a programmer on a four-person team for an engineering firm and we consist of a Ph.D, a Master's, a college dropout(me), and a high school dropout. I'm the least experienced member of the team and I make $93k.

[Mathias]

I think the 3 dumbest people I know all have Master's degrees in..get this..Education. You only have to be as intelligent as a 4th grader to teach 3rd grade though.

I don't put any stock in formal education. I'm a programmer on a four-person team for an engineering firm and we consist of a Ph.D, a Master's, a college dropout(me), and a high school dropout. I'm the least experienced member of the team and I make $93k.

Making a broad, sweeping generalization based off of just a few people you know isn't going to give you an accurate picture of the world.

[BackUpOrGetStng]

Where did I make a broad, sweeping generalization? I didn't say all elementary school teachers are dumb. The material just isn't very challenging.

[Mathias]

Where did I make a broad, sweeping generalization? I didn't say all elementary school teachers are dumb. The material just isn't very challenging.

That wasn't what I was talking about.

[BackUpOrGetStng]

Okay. Then what part were you talking about?

[oldskool83]

education means shit to me, ive meet more successfully people with out eduation then ones with. real world experiance is what means it all.

[Unimare]

I'm a woman, have a bachelor's degree, getting my master's and probably also plan on a PhD. Education is important to me, it does change the way you think. Also, like someone mentioned, I live in a country where higher education is valued very much, so I would not accept a partner who only settled with a high school diploma. It would just mean that we have very different priorities in life. I don't expect the man to have more degrees than I do, just because I'm interested in science and it takes a PhD to get somewhere with that, but I do want someone who's persistent enough to at least get a BA/BSc before planning a career. Then again, that's just me. Also, I'm known to take back what I've said (I used to say I'd never date anyone younger than me -- oops!), so who knows, perhaps I'll fall in love with a dashing intellectual who considers university too constraining of his innate genius.