Does education make someone a 'superior' person?

[bluesqueak]

In the 'class' debate over on HPFGU, I quipped:

 >For all we know the trolley lady could be a working-class research 
 >witch who does the six times yearly job for some extra cash to buy 
 >the rare herbs she needs. [grin]

And Elkins quipped back:
>Are you saying that if this were the case, then she would be in some 
>way *superior* to an ordinary run-of-the-mill trolley lady who had 
> no such intellectual ambitions? [*exceptionally* evil grin]

Then Eric wrote in post # 41469:
> For all we know, Stan Shunpike's spending his
> spare time working on the Great Wizarding World Novel, or painting 
> and hoping to be the wizard world's answer to Rembrandt. "Day jobs" 
> have a long, honored history in the art world, and we see so little 
> of him that this could well be the case. 

And it just started me wondering:
Do we see someone with 'intellectual ambitions' (or artistic 
ambitions) as superior to someone without? Is there a bias 
towards 'education makes you superior'?

Or does education actually *make* you a better person?

Pip
(lighting the blue touch paper and then standing well back)