Zounds!
Education equips a man with the ability to discuss many topics in a rational, intelligent and intellectual fashion. Education therefore, and by such definition, becomes a positive handicap for a prospective pilot let alone a practising one. Education, of course, should not be confused with cleverness, craftiness, connivance and cunning, attributes which most pilots find most useful from time to time, if only late at night in the long haul galleys.
It has been said, although one cannot quite remember by whom, that those females who aspire to pilothood are advantaged when provided with even less education than their male counterparts.
