True. I just had a long discussion with a former coworker about that yesterday. I don’t buy the whole “people who go to college aren’t smart. the salt of the earth really know how the world works” that comes up sometimes.
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guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoI always like to emphasize the difference between someone who’s educated, and someone who’s intelligent/smart/whatever
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
oh, people love the idea that scientific advances come from a uneducated guy working in a shed.
guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You’re putting words in my mouth, that’s not even close to the point I was making.
In my eyes, education is nothing more than a measure of how much knowledge you have been taught.
Intelligence is your ability to use your existing knowledge in a creative way. (ie. creating a working scientific theory after experimentation)
So no, advancements aren’t just made by some smart person who never went to school and lives in a shed, they come from people who are both educated and smart.