Kefka, my previous allegation that many who are "highly educated" are also those most likely to be resistant to societal and political change, let us say "pro-status-quo conformists", is actually the result, among other factors, of my own experiences and education in the US higher education (university) system.  

Anyway, just because one has a degree or an education in one particular field of study does not necessarily mean that they are knowledgeable, or even particularly wise, about every or any other field of study or subject matter outside their own.  So when it comes to politics, for example, I frequently find the less educated 'working man' to have just as much insight or wisdom as those with much more, but a naturally much more compartmentalized, education.