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Education has no bearing on intellect. Or appropriate life experience.
Also, when people say someone is stupid, crazy, etc, it’s because they don’t understand that person’s perspective.
Education has no bearing on intelligence, or how “smart” you are. Sure, being more educated CAN make you smarter, but most people can skate by and get a degree while learning next to nothing. Plus I think a lot of higher educated yet ignorant people have the nose-above-ear holier then thou complex and can’t be told anything they don’t agree with or believe in already without throwing a fit. Plenty of educated people are very intelligent, but I think the stupid educated people make a lot of noise and appear as a larger group than they are as well. You know that whole loud minority thing.
College degrees just ensure we’re specialized.
Or becoming better just ensures you get more work done, and thus more work shoved onto your plate.
I know a guy who was smart enough to go to University, but went to a basic college instead (or rather, a Dutch equivalent). “I don’t want to do all that” is his defence in not going to Uni.
I know someone who earns six figures who can’t spell, doesn’t know that he’s Caucasian, doesn’t know the difference between Chinese and Japanese people, thinks it’s a fine idea to sit in a swimming pool during a lightning storm, and once wrote a $1000 check to himself, thinking the bank would honor it and he’d suddenly have an extra $1000 in the bank.
There are only two options: Either they’re stupid and can’t comprehend things, or you’re stupid and can’t comprehend what they can.
I found that if something seems stupid to me, most of the time I just don’t understand their viewpoint. We are all living in our own world based on our limited experiences.
Some people are really good at studying and terrible and doing anything else, specially thinking.
They are the perfect drones, they are smart enough to work the machines and produce for their boss, but dumb enough to ask why.
I don’t think they’re acting.
Formal education is just a means to an end, end being typically independence/jobs, not actually intellect (no matter how much it’s marketed as such).
As a person who has recruited technical engineering staff: a degree will prove only that someone has been able to write about a subject, not that they actually know anything about it or are able to practice.
The proof of the pudding is in the probationary period.
Education isn’t intelligence. Academic achievement is done through effort in studying.
People say books and college are for to be to make you smarter, but they can also be for to be to get you dead
Intelligence and wisdom are separate things.
E.g. you are intelligent enough to know smoking is bad for you, but lack the wisdom to stop smoking.
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom is knowing to not put it in a fruit salad.
can’t be smart at everything 🤷♂️
Education in one field doesn’t mean so in all. I still do some things that may be considered stupid, it’s just habitual at this point.
When you say, “fucking stupid” is “stupidity” actually the problem? Like what, they can’t do math?
Raw brainpower is only a fraction of what’s involved in good judgement. Book knowledge is another fraction. But there’s a whole host of other factors that can influence decisions. Poor impulse control, psychological hangups, bad habits, greed, privilege, etc. That’s assuming that the education they received actually taught them how to think critically in the first place.
The vast majority of the time, when I have a problem with someone, it’s not just a matter of lacking brainpower or education. Condensing those problems down to “stupid” is, aside from any other concerns, simply inaccurate.
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