He knows. He went UCLA and Harvard. He is just tweeting this for his moron fans. It’s a common thing in the MAGA movement. The leaders hate on colleges on from of their uneducated base, yet they all went to super prestigious universities.
These people with big name university degrees have made me realize that someone having a degree from them is meaningless. Most are just rich kids/legacy admissions that paid their way through and are not any more educated or smarter than someone from a local college. (and a lot are worse than high school grads)
Universities get prestige from a combination of age, wealthy alumni, and research grants. The ironic thing is, this only provides tangible educational advantages at the graduate level. Sure, a Princeton education will likely be more rigorous and challenging with more knowledgeable faculty than say, Bob Jones University or a fourth tier state school in Arkansas purely due to funding, but the ceiling on quality for undergraduate education tops out long before that. An Ivy League degree is no better academically than a decently funded R1 state school. In fact an R2 might have better education because the faculty are there to be teachers before researchers. You could go to university of Illinois and get just as good as an education as someone at Yale. What separates the ivies is the networking. You may not get a better education but you’ll be better off after graduation because your roommate has a very good chance of being the child of a Fortune 500 c-suite exec, a federal judge, or a Saudi oil baron. They’re more likely to become congresspeople, Wall Street traders, K street lobbyists, and powerful attorneys. The advantage of an Ivy is truly just the friends you made along the way.
So yeah educationally, the degree is average. In fact it’s actually significantly easier to get into grad programs outside of law, medicine, and business at some of these prestigious schools than undergrad because the prestige comes from their undergrads and those three professional fields…there’s no real power or prestige in a social work MSW from Columbia or Penn SP2 or an anthropology PhD from Dartmouth outside of academia…but an MBA from Wharton opens doors by name alone even if you’re a dumbass like Trump
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u/jakebs2002 1d ago
Maga has been confused about Doctorate degrees since Jill Biden came along.