(02-25-2026, 05:21 PM)David64 Wrote: You keep saying "the uneducated" like it's an insult.
Educated and intelligent are not the same. A 10 year old can memorize a book, that doesn't mean he understands it. Most college is about memorizing what the Liberal teachers think is important. Doesn't mean they know how to think. They just know how to parrot what they've been told.
Excellent point about the difference between "education" and "intelligence".
My Dear Old Dad was one of the smartest people I ever met. His IQ was measured at 198. For all that, he quit school in the 7th grade, and never went back. He was extremely "intelligent", but supremely "uneducated". His real education was on the streets and on the job.
As for the point that US colleges are "parrot mills", I can't agree more, having attended several of them. It actually starts in high school, and has for a very long time. I'm in my 60's, and it was that way even way back when, when I was in high school. I had ONE teacher that taught us to think rather than parrot "facts", and I thank God for her. The rest only shoved dry "facts" in our faces, expected us to memorize them, and then regurgitate them back on tests.
I have by now forgotten or "unlearned" 95% of what I "learned" in high school, because when I got out into the real world I found that their "facts" were no such thing, or else utterly inapplicable to life in the Real World.
That single teacher who taught us to evaluate and think for ourselves affected my survival in the Real World more than she will ever know now.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake