That's for sure.

I'll take the down to earth knowledge and wisdom of a common sense person over "a book educated" so called "intellectual" any day.

Many college professors teaching the "intellectuals"have never been out in the "real world" having spent their entire life's going from getting one degree to the next.

Would you apply this same logic to your surgeon? Would you prefer a "common sense" lawyer to one who is "book educated"? What about your accountant or the chairman of the Fed.

That falls in right line with the conservative idea that business and military experience trump academic and public sector experience.

...also, I think the demarcation between academic merit and elitism (not to be confused with elite as a positive, for example; Dustin Pedroia is an elite 2nd baseman as opposed to an elitist second baseman) have been vanquished in a deliberate attempt to weaken critical dialogue about an issue in dispute. Dismissing others as "elitist" does far more harm to the voting public and the working class conservative/republican self interest than the actual consideration of alternative points of view. This logic is what got Bush elected to a 2nd terms in office, and look what we have after 8 years of him at the helm and 6 years of his chums controlling both houses of congress; Far more harm than good!

Ohhh...but wait, Bush went to Phillips Academy, Yale and Harvard Business school. So if anyone's been hoodwinked, bamboozled, run-a-mucked, its been Joe Six Pack and his boy Bubba who believed Bush was one of them.

Guess what, you been HAD!!!!

Now pass the %$%$%$%$in merlot!!

Of course all of mine are educated in order to practice their professions, but i have chosen all 3 in their 50's because i believe they have the common sense derived from experience.
I wouldn't choose any right out of college or medical school to trust my life or monies with.

My point was many professors, aside from med school, haven't worked in the real world, learned from books and don't have the common sense that comes from working in the "real world."

Working for a fortune 500 company i saw alot of book learners coming into the company without a clue as to what was needed in the "real world". The ones without common sense didn't last long.

Just my experience.

Most people would have passed on Theo Epstein because he was too young....