When first reading the newly released data on the educations of state legislators, I was nodding my head at states with highly educated politicians, and frowning at those where a fifth or a quarter of legislators had no record of college at all. Then I thought again. Our knee-jerk reaction might be that it’s better for states to be governed by highly educated people, but perhaps that’s misguided. The data have been compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education starting with Project Vote Smart’s (a nonpartisan research group) figures, with added research done by the staff of the Chronicle. Much of the information is self-reported by the legislators (a few of whom reported attending the “School of Life” or being “self-educated.”)