Where can I go to be respected as an educated person?

Answer 1

Go somewhere you can earn a good living suitable to your education. The amount of education isn't as important as to what you do with it. Respect is earned by what you do, not by what you've done. To be educated and not live up to your potential is one of the worst shames. Shame doesn't equal respect. Why even care what other people think? The best respect you can have is what you think of yourself.

Answer 2

An interesting question.

Euripide's Medea actually has a passage about this. Medea, a cunning, cruel woman that slaughters her own children to get back at her husband, is almost always the smartest person in the plays in which she's featured. In Euripide's play, the king comes to Medea and tells her she must leave because he feels that she is going to commit a violent act once again. Medea's response is quite relevant to this post.

She asks the Gods why they have cursed her with intellect, and asks them to remove it from her. With intellect comes unwarranted emotions from others - fear, threat, anger. Just as Lady Macbeth asked to be unsexed to commit a violent act, Medea asks the same so that her intellect can be viewed as a strength and not a weakness.

However, times since Euripides have changed. Now intellect doesn't simply inspire fear, threat, and anger if it's found in a woman, but in the male gender as well. And this isn't even covering the internal conflicts someone with true intellect faces.

Which, leaves the original post. You feel socially extricated just as all great minds do - think Kafka's constant solitude, Foucault's writings on society and his fellow man - and therefore you should try and bond with those you feel hold the same level of intellect. You will be respected by those who are also intelligent, and therefore do not feel the very same feeling that Euripides so aptly identified years and years ago.

Try an academic forum, or a book discussion based upon rather complex ideas. You will only gain respect by those who aren't threatened by you.

Answer 3

in order to be respected ? first of all, you must know what respect toward others is . treat all others with dignity at all times,it matters not whether the person facing you is educated or not ....in the same instance ? always add the right dose of humility to your behaviour ;
if you accept lack of respect once ? then your character is not set to be respected by others.
being educated ? does not mean that your are owed respect , if you do not know how to impose and set yourself within society ,it matters not where your location is ,there are no place on earth that will ensure respect unless you believe that you must be respected .........but never forget to do likewise toward others .

Answer 4

You are probably surrounded by educated people so how do you respect them? If you can't even pick them then the chances are that's how it will be wherever you go.
Really you don't respect somebody for their education but for the person they are.

Answer 5

Find educated peers, those who will stimulate your intellectual interests. Also, be humble! I am in no way insinuating that you are not however, some of the most educated people I know spend their time educating others with hearts of gold.

Answer 6

the bathroom without the need of a helmet.

Answer 7

not here!