>I work in a field where I come into contact with a lot of "educated" >people. While most of them are smart, there a also quite a few who >aren't, no matter what the piece of paper hanging on the wall >proclaims. > >I also have a lot to do with people who'd be considered "uneducated", >boilermakers, machinists, plant operators etc. they are some of the >smartest, most practical people I know. Of course some are as thick as >2 bricks. >
I agree Dave. A degree or university education does not make one intelligent or prove one is intelligent. Like you, some of the dumbest people I'ver worked with have degrees and spent 4 - 8 years of their lives to get them + spent untold tens of thousands of dollars. When assessing their overall intelligence I have to ask... how smart was that? On the other hand some of them are quite smart. So is it the education that decides whether one is intelligent or is it a combination of life's experiences combined with the luck of the gene pool? Like you I do not possess a degree of any kind but have been quite successful in my technical career, even more so than many that do have a degree. Education is important of course, but it's what you do with it afterwards that counts. Then there's the the fact that someone can be book smart and street stupid. No higher education can instill common sense or those intangible values that make a person more than the sum of the parts. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
