That could be. I meet a lot of people. I meet scores of new people daily through work, know many through church, my daughters school, that I met while in the military, while working at Disneyland.

I can think of one person who did not value education. He was a complete moron. The reason he had for disliking education was that he felt that people would hide behind it and snub him because he hadn't gone to college. Reality was everyone snubbed him because he was an obnoxious ass of a person. Come to think of it, his ex-wife had a degree and would never let him hear the end of it. That might have been part of it.

When in Georgia and north Carolina they always talked about astronauts with awe. Family in Mississippi could care less about what your education is, unless you bring it up, then they will listen with rapt attention as you tell them about your area of study. Hungry for knowledge, but unable to obtain it for themselves.

The people I see who shunned education are still working as baggers at the local supermarket, stoners in highscool, still stoners. The gang bangers (if still around) who can make 100 times what I make a year in a few days, and who wouldn't if that was a possible outcome. And, well, that's it.

Maybe I'm not meeting them, or maybe they don't exist past a certain age. I'm 31 btw.