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<blockquote data-quote="ScentofCedar" data-source="post: 37533" data-attributes="member: 3353"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fran</div><div class="ubbcode-body"></p><p></p><p>The people I have met who appear educated are the one's who did not follow the crowd without good reason to do so. </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure well educated is the same as intelligent. </p><p> </div></div></p><p></p><p>********************</p><p></p><p>I agree.</p><p></p><p>And I agree that "educated" does not necessarily mean intelligent ~ particularly when you understand how selective our educational systems are.</p><p></p><p>Unless you are someone who is willing to jump through some incredibly boring hoops, you will never make it through today's educational system.</p><p></p><p>So, what kinds of creative minds are being filtered out?</p><p></p><p>Creatives never were much able to sit still and repeat information learned by rote.</p><p></p><p>So, how intelligence and education correlate is an open question.</p><p></p><p>It always bothered me so much that music was taught in our public schools by taking it apart. </p><p></p><p>Who came up with that brilliant (and oh so tedious) way of exposing kids to the wonder of music?!?</p><p></p><p>Cheesh.</p><p></p><p>So many "educated" people seem, by virtue of their educations, to hold themselves above the rest.</p><p></p><p>In other words, there are those among us who are so identified with having been educated (and correlating education with intelligence ~ though I wonder sometimes whether there IS a correlation) that they become as narrow minded and judgmental as the most uneducated among us.</p><p></p><p>It is an interesting thing to see.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScentofCedar, post: 37533, member: 3353"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fran</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> The people I have met who appear educated are the one's who did not follow the crowd without good reason to do so. I'm not sure well educated is the same as intelligent. </div></div> ******************** I agree. And I agree that "educated" does not necessarily mean intelligent ~ particularly when you understand how selective our educational systems are. Unless you are someone who is willing to jump through some incredibly boring hoops, you will never make it through today's educational system. So, what kinds of creative minds are being filtered out? Creatives never were much able to sit still and repeat information learned by rote. So, how intelligence and education correlate is an open question. It always bothered me so much that music was taught in our public schools by taking it apart. Who came up with that brilliant (and oh so tedious) way of exposing kids to the wonder of music?!? Cheesh. So many "educated" people seem, by virtue of their educations, to hold themselves above the rest. In other words, there are those among us who are so identified with having been educated (and correlating education with intelligence ~ though I wonder sometimes whether there IS a correlation) that they become as narrow minded and judgmental as the most uneducated among us. It is an interesting thing to see. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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