To be or not to be... educated...

Somehow this topic has been on my mind for the past 2 days but just that I have no time to jot it down.. So am gonna scribble something and get it off my mind before my day gets busier.. (Afternote: i actually took 2hrs to write this!OMG)

Had lunch with my colleagues at Katong and 1 of them was just mentioning that her friend ordered dumplings and when he realised that the number of the dumplings in the soup does not telly with what was shown on the menu picture, he actually coloured the missing one on the menu... I would think this action is barbaric, won't you? And guess what, he is a PhD holder.. who would guess that such high qualification person would do something that we deem as barbaric?

I find that the more higher you are educated, you tend to complain more, demand more and more critical with things but that is because you know your own rights as a comsumer. Having being a service line before, I can tell you, these people are a pain in the neck and rude 'cos they think they are mighty and high after some extra years of University.. some times, they are just trying to make things difficult for you.. Being a graduate myself, I hope I am not like one of those people..

So is being highly educated good? Yes, it is good for the country with all the elites, good for the economy.. But does that mean losing some basic values?

That night, I was sitting at the coffeeshop waiting for my fishsoup bee hoon takeaway then a pram with a 2-years old toddler passed by with his parents. Judging their age, I would think that they are probably in the late twenties.. Pardon me - i dont think they are highly educated but probably poly(?).. Nowadays govt keeps saying that graduates are not getting married to reproduce "elite" babies. Is that one bad side of a coin? 'Cos I see many of my poly-graduate friends got married or getting married but I don't see that in my Uni-graduate friends.. Many of them are still single (like me) or facing problems..

Many of our parents/elders are not highly educated people but yet, they are polite, respectful, humble and their marriage last longer, less divorces, more marriages etc.. I understand that it could be a social thing and the era, time... (blah blah blah)... but doesnt highly education have a part to play too?