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It doesn't make sense to say "they reject the idea that we ask people to take real-world responsibility for their contributions and that we make a special role for experts." They can't reject ''those'' ideas, because those ideas are also facts over which they have no control. They can't control the fact that we do make a special role for experts, but they can hate or dislike it. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 09:57, 18 June 2008 (CDT) | It doesn't make sense to say "they reject the idea that we ask people to take real-world responsibility for their contributions and that we make a special role for experts." They can't reject ''those'' ideas, because those ideas are also facts over which they have no control. They can't control the fact that we do make a special role for experts, but they can hate or dislike it. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 09:57, 18 June 2008 (CDT) | ||
:Well, they reject them interiorally (if that's a word), and either refuse to join the project because of that rejection, or they criticize the project because of that rejection. It makes perfect sense to me.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 11:01, 18 June 2008 (CDT) | |||
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What is an "overeducated" person?--Paul Wormer 11:46, 17 June 2008 (CDT)
- From the OED: Brit. /vrdjketd/, /vrdketd/, U.S. /ovrdkedd/ [< OVER- prefix + EDUCATED adj. Compare later OVER-EDUCATE v.]
- Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary or desirable.
- 1788 C. T. SMITH Emmeline I. vi. 99 He was not inclined to marry at all; or if he did, it should not be one of those over-educated puppets. 1836 Fraser's Mag. 13 314 Flaunting, fortuneless, over-educated girls. 1899 W. JAMES Talks to Teachers 257 To be imprisoned or shipwrecked or forced into the army would permanently show the good of life to many an over-educated pessimist. 1935 D. L. SAYERS Gaudy Night xvii. 364 How many women care..about anybody's intellectual integrity? Only over-educated women like us. 2000 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 29 Sept. 7B, [He] railed against providing free education for all the returning G.I.s, claiming we would end up with large numbers of overeducated people for whom there were no commensurate jobs.
- --I had to get some use out of my OED subscription. :-) --Larry Sanger 18:57, 17 June 2008 (CDT)
I really appreciate Dr. Sanger's mention of younger contributers & "some active high school students who have done good work". : ) (Chunbum Park 17:35, 17 June 2008 (CDT))
Re reject, hate, and dislike
It doesn't make sense to say "they reject the idea that we ask people to take real-world responsibility for their contributions and that we make a special role for experts." They can't reject those ideas, because those ideas are also facts over which they have no control. They can't control the fact that we do make a special role for experts, but they can hate or dislike it. --Larry Sanger 09:57, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- Well, they reject them interiorally (if that's a word), and either refuse to join the project because of that rejection, or they criticize the project because of that rejection. It makes perfect sense to me.... Hayford Peirce 11:01, 18 June 2008 (CDT)