What are some differences between tertiary-level educated people (uni, college graduates, etc.) and those who aren't tertiary-level educated people (high school graduates)?

Thank you for the ATA! My dad ran away from home at age 12. He completed high school via the marines. He had 2 years of Uni. My mom had a stable house hold, and went to law school after college. The difference between the two of them is life outlook, attitude and how they approach problems. My dad believes that physical labor is a demanding but needed job and that everyone should do at least a little. He approaches problems with personal experience, and mathematics/money based attitude and anologies while looking at the long term. My mom believes that most everyone should go to college, even for a little. She approaches problems with personal experience and concern for the over all social implications, but not nessiarily decades in advance like my father.

Thanks for the A2A. Actually it is very difficult to generalize the difference between tertiary-level educated people and those who are not. In the place I live in (a strongly middle-class suburban town in India), most people who belong to a particular socio-economic strata inevitably have tertiary level education (at least college graduates, if not master degree holders), and those belonging to another strata are inevitably not. So the differences I observe are really an effect of not just the level of education, but also of the socio-economic upbringing. However, I do know a few pair of siblings, one of whom went to college (graduated with a bachelor's degree) and the other never did (stopped after high school - 12th standard - or middle school - 10th standard). What I noticed is the people who go to college tend to have a broader view point and greater understanding of the people around them. That is because in India, schools (we don't really do junior/middle/high) tend to have students from very similar background - same region, same economic level. It is only in college that you are thrown together with a lot of different kinds of people. Of course, that happens in work environment also - but to a much lesser degree, and with much lesser chances of forming friendships. So tertiary educated men and women tend to have had broader interactions than high school graduates. A result of social conditioning is that tertiary educated people are far more confident. Current Indian society tends to look down upon people who do not have some sort of college education. So people who never went to college really are on the lower rung of social respect. (So much so, that a movie was made where a very wealthy man - but without a college degree - buys his son a college degree so that his son doesn't face the daily scorn he does) Other than these two, I really haven't observed much difference.

Thanks for A2A. Education is the key to bring about an all round development in the students' life. A graduate student has an open minded approach to solve an issue. It always helps, but it depends on the circumstances as well, there is no hard and fast rule that change will happen. Some gain this problem solving technique by "experience". Experience is the best teacher. Students' life is open to experiences, All the best for future!! :)

You can't tell by education level what nature will it have. It will only tell which society they belong to. You are mixing things. Yes education do make people civilised. But traits are inherited and grooming is done upto senior secondary level. After that life moved in a definite way in context of mentality in most of the cases

I never encountered such thing in India. So hard to tell. Actually in India education is all about good percentage and degrees. Then almost everyone dreams of getting a MNC package and settle abroad. Brain drain is a more prominent problem here. Though the things are changing but at snail's pace.