Nowadays, being educated is not a sign of intelligence. Today's doctors are pharmaceutical salespeople, and economists are learning about Keynes instead of the Austrian school. Marxism instead of free market economics. A tragedy. But I agree with you that a marriage contract today is very one-sided. 

 Never was. The difference is that, in the yesteryears, there were less educated people, so all of them looked intelligent to the beholder. Nowadays, everyone has a degree...