whom do you show more respect / treat with more respect?

Question

Someone who has a University degree
or someone who has been trained at a College?

I am Canadian. Here, University's are centres for Acadamia and research, and Colleges are centres for training for "hands on" careers. This is slowly changing as more and more colleges are offering degrees for such things as Accounting and Nursing.

As I understand it, in the US - Universities are academic, but Community Colleges are more designed for hands on training. If this is not so, please let me know.... but the question is,
in whom do you place more respect: a person who has a University degree, or a person who has a College certificate or College training?

I am also aware that many of you treat everyone with equal respect, however I would appreciate if you really thought about this question please.
Thank you so much. :)

alright I will modify the question for the US definitions:
Whom do you treat with more respect:
Someone with a University degree
or someone who has a Vocational certificate?

Answer 1

my son has 2 university degrees, and one from the the local community college, myself I was lucky just to finish High School,

but the ones that I respect the most are the ones that take pride in what they are doing.

Answer 2

I agree with bat girl--it honestly doesn't make any difference. In fact, it doesn't make any difference if someone has attended neither. An education is not a requirement for someone to earn my respect. I think most people I know would say the same thing. As far as the difference between colleges & universities in America, I think the words are used interchangably for the most part--except perhaps for ivy league schools such as Harvard, Yale, etc. But they're in a category by themselves. Here, the "hands-on training" you're talking about is mostly taught at Vocational Schools.

Answer 3

Honestly, I look at the heart of a person and the wisdom that person possesses rather than the education level. Wisdom will take a person much further than knowledge. And wisdom is not something attained through a university.

I have known people with impressive degrees who have ended up working as restaurant cashiers. I also know a man that only has a high school diploma that has built a very successful business from the ground up.

I respect people of all education levels, but I have more admiration for people who have little, but can accomplish great things with the little they have. :)

Answer 4

Alas, humble being that I am,
I do treat old men who have fought in the wars
with so much more respect than I would normally treat all others, whom I treat as equal.
My heart goes out these old men who have not long left in this world, they are all old, crumbled and limp.
They have their memories, their old loves that keep them going, they shuffle around, trying to fill in the time before they hopefully meet them again on the other side.
These men who with great pride, when so young, so innocent, put their hands up, and left all they knew, and loved, the country they were fighting for, and were shipped off over the sea, 50 yrs ago, imagine the innocence of those men, they were thrust into the war, in another country, they saw men shot in front of them, they saw them fall, they walked over them to stand and fight for a country so far away, they stayed they held ground, they saw so much, these innocent men from the colonies.
Such loyalty, such faith, such dedication.
Those that came home, were never the same, they had seen things, no one should see, they had felt things so harsh it makes my heart bleed.
They came back to their beloved country, to find their girl with another, their brother never to come back, they were told to not talk about these things to anybody. They held this in from those they loved, they carried this while they had their children, their bodies and minds never the same again.
There are so few of these men left in my country, the bent, hurt, wise somehow in ways you would not want, sad, waiting, waiting to go home, to the love that surpasses all understanding. To the love of God.
These men, I bend over backwards for, to help, to make a little moment more easy, to show in some way that I know what they have been through and I acknowledge the giving.

Those are the ones I respect.

A piece of paper dosen't do it, somehow.

Answer 5

You are very close to the right answer. My skills outweigh anything I could have learned in school. I make as much money as anyone that sits at a desk or in front of a computer. I have to use my hands as tools..and I love it. Degrees and diplomas...they have their worth. If you want to be able to work..get a trade. I can go anywhere in this country and get a job. Probably in Canada also.

Answer 6

I have met many foolish people with enough sheepskins to clothe a flock, and many of the wisest people that I have been blessed to know have had little formal education. I particularly respect those that are polite when disagreeing with others. Whatever the level of education they may have reached, they were blessed to have been taught respect for others.

Answer 7

For me it is specific to the person. I need to know how people apply their knowledge. Some folks with no training live in a manner that demonstrates aquired knowledge, which is as respectable as any formal education. Everyone has access to knowledge - how that knowledge is applied and used is the key!

Answer 8

I respect anyone with knowledge and the ability to apply it, whether it is a cabinet maker, a teacher, a construction worker, a scientist - what have you.

It doesn't amtter how you get your education, it matters that you get eduicated in something and use that knowledge.

Answer 9

I never pay attention to it. I mean, I never ask people where they were educated.
It's just not important to me.

Answer 10

I'm with batgirl.