Democrats don't understand what it means to be educated

Democrats think they have a monopoly on what being educated means in America. However, being educated means much more than just having a college degree.

Ted Jenkin is CEO and co-founder of Oxygen Financial and president of Exit Stage Left Advisors.

The Latin root of the word educate is "ex-ducere": to lead out of. The idea is that the educational process leads you out of your former self into a new self: more knowledgeable, more skilled, wiser, and more experienced. Nowhere in this definition does it say that if you get a diploma, especially a college diploma, that you are more educated. But the democrats have increasingly defined the notion of being educated in America to be inextricably linked with getting a four-year college education. Mind you, that America has plenty of educated derelicts and plenty of kids who graduate college without a clue what they want to do and end up being a Starbucks’ barista while they figure it out.