I recently attended a DC and I believe this talk was an outline not a manuscript. The speaker, while trashing "higher education" which was defined as a 4 year bachelor degree or a graduate degree, was not nearly as forthright with his distain for educated people. They did have the 2 "experiences" where the person in one case thought they were going to be running the company straight out of college with her Biz Admin degree and was shocked to see that she had to work her way up, which apparently she wasn't able to do. She's now a pioneer or whatever, blah, blah, blah.
The comments Justitia heard are really over the top for a DC and I would imagine that the counsel to this brother will be, "we agree with what you said, but you need to season your talks with salt".
On the other hand, I was eating dinner with a friend after Friday's session. He was talking about college (saying it was a waste of time) and said he knew one person who got a law degree and thought that would help in getting accepted to Bethel. My friend (an elder who loves the fact that he knows a couple of people in NY) said how futile this was because the Society sent trusted Bethelites to law school so they could work in the legal department. Although I've hear this said many times here, I have never seen an inside source confirm it. My only reaction was to say it seemed weird to me that the WTS would spend contributed funds to have someone get a graduate degree while discouraging most JWs from getting just a bachelor degree (which in my opinion is the new high school degree). He agrued briefly about college not necessarily being discouraged (the stance that was recently dropped) and I dropped it. However, I was sitting near him the next day and made eye contact with him during this talk. I wanted to make sure he heard what was directly being said that JWs should not pursue higher education.
The harder the WTS gets with this, the less JWs listen. My generation was probably the last JW generation to skip college because of the official WTS stance. Once the horse was let out of the barn in the early 90s, there was no way to get it back in.
