Does claiming someone "isn't in the real world" mean that..?

Question

being a garbage collector has a higher value than an "unreal" job like teaching economics, history, business, science, or engineering to students?

Or is it that those who claim such things are opposed to what they think is being taught in an odd sort of elitism of their own?

Answer 1

Its an attempt to discredit someone by saying they are basically not in the same reality as everyone else. A flawed arguement showing that they didnt learn much in school likely because their parents told them that education was bad in some way.
The value of a job is simply how easy it is to replace that cog in the machine. Harder cogs to replace and considered more valuable. Despite the fact that the machine runs poorly without all the little cogs.

Answer 2

If some one spent his whole life living with his parents then went to live at University for 4 to 8 years while preparing to teach and never had a job off-campus or individual bills to pay like rent, heat etc. since it is all included in his tuition he clearly has never lived in the real world. Even after starting to teach he daily spends most of his time on a liberally biased college campys with little interaction with regular people....

Answer 3

That's one way of looking at it.

The issue really is whether the teachers are "in the real world" because they understand the real-world effects and consequences of what they are teaching -- or whether they teach only in the abstract, and thus never deal with the real-world effects and aspects of the subject matter.

Answer 4

Usually it is directed towards somone's way of thinking. For example those that whine and cry about blackwater are the sames one's that support abortion Think First

Answer 5

When I use that term I use it to describe people who just repeat canards that don't hold water in reality.