"If you can't be pretentious in college..."

Most of us now are not in the formal education phase of our lives. For those who still are we are at an age where the romance of college life has worn off and we are left to figuring out the world the way it really is and not the way it appears in text books or professor's minds.

Now as we delve into the world as it really is, we need to be tolerant of those pretentious college students who think because they are in the thick of formal education that they are better informed than we are.

It is to be expected that college students be pompous and a little too self assured. Although for those of us lucky enough to be forming our own opinions instead of being spoon fed agreed upon opinions from the intellectual world, it is best to leave that high opinion of our own knowledge at the institution that declared us educated. By virtue of degree we are educated enough to be aware of how completely uninformed we are.

I may be wrong, after all I am constantly open to the knowledge of other schools of thought, but the smartest people in the world are those who never view themselves as such. They are aware of their own insignificance.

Every once in a while I see the wide eyed face of innocence. A person who has not ever found out the hard way they've been wrong, or seen the ugly face of reality so that their world is forever changed. It is a good thing to be this way, energy, misinformation, and confidence produce lovely people who believe in everything idealistic and sweat hope from every pore. Alas this phase of life cannot last forever and they must be educated for real at some point, some people can avoid this kind of education for a long time, but I have yet to meet someone in their later years that hasn't figured out how completely wrong they've been about a great many things.

I am young, I freely admit that, and that may mean I am wrong on this subject. I'm in no way above finding out I'm wrong, but now I've come to expect it and hope that there may be growth and learning for real; instead of pretended knowledge that is based on fiction or text that is and must be biased.

Side note: Anyone know the popular TV show from which the title of this post is quoted?