Makes Me Think - Today, at my grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary, my grandmother read us an entry from her journal that she kept while she was in college. It simply said, “When I tell people I'll be getting married at 20, they look at me as if they expected me to be more intelligent than that.” MMT

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Today, at my grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary, my grandmother read us an entry from her journal that she kept while she was in college. It simply said, “When I tell people I'll be getting married at 20, they look at me as if they expected me to be more intelligent than that.” MMT

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There is a correlation between marriage age and education attained. People who get married young tend not to pursue education. There's nothing to be judgmental about, but their reactions are justified if they assume higher degrees of education correlates with higher degrees of intelligence.