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College degrees mean you can read and write with a purpose. It doesn’t mean you can think. There’s a reasons you don’t see a ton of conservatives in research science.
I taught college for a few years.
Only about 10-20% of my students showed any evidence of engagement or understanding with the material.
The other 60% were just parroting everything, but that’s good enough to get B/C and pass the class and that’s all they care about.
And about 20% were total idiots who didn’t belong in a college classroom, but the school won’t fail them even when they cheat because money. 10% of my students cheated and I reported them and only about 3% of those that cheat get punished for it, the others get passed with a low grade.
These ratios hold pretty true with regards to competency in the workplace, too.
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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.
Yep. Education isn’t inclusive of neurodiversity, non white western ethnic groups, or just different types of intelligence. Academic isn’t intelligence
Because people have different standards and don’t agree on what smart or stupid is.
I see people praising something as total genius, that I think is stupid as shit. And I see really smart things people say, downvoted into oblivion and called stupid.
People generally think stuff they agree with and makes them feel good is smart, and stuff they don’t agree with and makes them feel bad is stupid.
Not all colleges and not all degrees are equal. Some people can excel in a single field but struggle in everything else. Some people have excellent memory function but precious little ability to reason. Some people change dramatically from their late teens to their late twenties. The list goes on…
I’m continually amazed at how fucking idiots have jobs, buy houses and cars and stuff.
most of them inherited their money.
most stupid people I meet who have all that stuff, it’s because most of it was inherited from mom and dad, or mom and dad had the connections to get them a 100K+ job straight out of college at a friends’ company.
And they think anyone who doesn’t have all stuff that is expensive as their stuff is stupid, because if they were smart, why wouldn’t they be richer than them?
All a degree gives you is skill in one particular thing.
It don’t give you shit all else.
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.
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.
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.
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.
