*sorry - a piece of paper
"is that what you use to measure how educated someone is?" Not at all - YOU miss the point. Some of the stupidest people that I know have masters degrees. A piece of paper just means that you (or someone) paid the money and did the bare minimum to graduate, it doesn't mean that any of that learnin' stuck.
It was the term that you used, "uneducated", which is usually a term used by the left to cast shade on anyone with less than a masters and a string of letters behind their name.
I stand by my thesis that "education" has nothing to do with how intelligent a person is nor how much common sense they have. There are dozens of better ways of acquiring critical thinking skills than by going to college.