Are there too many educated intellectuals in the world?

[multivita-man]

Having a college degree does not make someone an intellectual

Especially since many people believe that once someone receives their degree, that's the end of their education. Receiving a degree shouldn't be the end of a person's intellectual growth; it should be the beginning.

People can be self-taught, too. My grandfather basically dropped out of school after the 8th grade and became a ranch hand at first before working around sawmills, eventually becoming a manager. My mother still has his collection of books he bought with his own money: Harvard Classics, The World's Greatest Literature, and so on. He had his own library. He read Plato, Aristotle, Dante, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Hegel - you name it. He's a ******* sawmill guy and he's reading more than most doctors and lawyers.

He wasn't just an intellect, though. He knew machinery. He knew tools. He was handy. You drop him in the middle of the Appalachians and he'd have figured it out.

 

[Unkotare]

Perhaps the correct solution is to have more college educated people, not fewer. Make it free or near free and more people will do it and then people who have college degrees won't defer so much to their opinions on things.

Nothing is free.

 

[DGS49]

It is possible for people with marginaI inteIIectuaI ability to get a pretty impressive set of letters after their names. The Doctorate of Education comes to mind. Graduate degrees should aII require passing of a comprehensive test of knowledge before getting the degree. One shouId ask, why is it that this person pursued and obtained that doctorate? Were they striving to avoid adult responsibilities? Don't discount the possibility.

My own "problem" with higher education is the Iarge number of people who pursue and obtain Iaw degrees. It would be far better for society if they - aII very intelligent people - did something productive rather than getting into Iaw, which produces nothing. Never forget that 50% of aII Iawyers graduated in the bottom half of their classes, which severely Iimits their prospects in the future.

 

[Raynine]

Sowell is a bonafide intellectual. He knows what posers are and alot of people in academia, politics and elite leadership are just that, posers. That's why everything is so corrupt. I don't a have a good answer for how to fix this. I only know what I see.

 

[Woodznutz]

Exactly. It is only by combining intelligence and wisdom that truth can be found

That requires experience, well-aged, and a lot of it.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Are there too many educated intellectuals in the world?​

not really a concern of mine, as i'll never be one of them......~S~

"Educated Intellectuals" Is a Contradiction in Terms—What Diploma Dumbos Mistakenly Call an "Oxymoron"

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Nothing is free.

Except the free ride corporations get from unpaid education, just like the NFL gets from college football. But "student" athletes get expensive housing, expensive food, and expensive entertainment. Like real college students should get, those on athletic "scholarships" are rewarded for their non-academic talent with the equivalent of $600 a week, plus free tuition.

 

[Failzero]

Who were warped by Marxist Teachers & Profs from Pre School to Post Grad School ?

 

[martybegan]

Intellect has to be combined with a creative mind, inventive vision, extreme curiousity and humbleness to be willing to listen to both sides and research facts.

Of course the world needs more intellects. We'd still be rolling a square wheel uphill if we didn't have intellectual capacity.

There is a big different between being indoctrinated and being intellectual.

And has to be directed at endeavors that we need intellectual people to work on.

We need Engineers, Medical Doctors, entrepreneurs, Lawyers (some), Hard Science researchers.

What we don't need are too many management class types, XYZ studies types, and politicians from the start types.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Who were warped by Marxist Teachers & Profs from Pre School to Post Grad School ?

Marx Was an HeirHead

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And has to be directed at endeavors that we need intellectual people to work on.

We need Engineers, Medical Doctors, entrepreneurs, Lawyers (some), Hard Science researchers.

Only Highly Paid Professional Training Will Give Us That

 

[initforme]

Only Highly Paid Professional Training Will Give Us That

And we need way over half of the labor force very highly educated.

 

[Anathema]

That requires experience, well-aged, and a lot of it.

Not entirely. Wisdom can be acquired by spending time with wise people and taking their teachings to heart. Obviously experience is an amazing teacher of wisdom as well, but it’s not the only method of acquiring it.

 

[initforme]

Not entirely. Wisdom can be acquired by spending time with wise people and taking their teachings to heart. Obviously experience is an amazing teacher of wisdom as well, but it’s not the only method of acquiring it.

As long as it starts out being paid $50 per hour then yes.

 

[Woodznutz]

Not entirely. Wisdom can be acquired by spending time with wise people and taking their teachings to heart. Obviously experience is an amazing teacher of wisdom as well, but it’s not the only method of acquiring it.

To really understand a precept, you must experience it.

 

[Anathema]

To really understand a precept, you must experience it.

In certain situations, yes; but I think there’s a lot that can be gained by truly open-minded observation and conversation.

 

[Woodznutz]

In certain situations, yes; but I think there’s a lot that can be gained by truly open-minded observation and conversation.

It usually takes a crisis for people to do what they knew they should have been doing all along, re, health, finances, relationships, etc.

 

[Anathema]

It usually takes a crisis for people to do what they knew they should have been doing all along, re, health, finances, relationships, etc.

In a large percentage of situations you’re absolutely correct; but for a certain percentage of the population it’s not required. It’s a small percentage but they do exist.

For example the difference between my youngest brother and I during our childhood… he would look at a situation and say “I can get away with it 98/100 times, I’m gonna do it.” Whereas I was more “I’ll get caught and punished 2/100 times, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.”

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

It usually takes a crisis for people to do what they knew they should have been doing all along, re, health, finances, relationships, etc.

Not 'usually' for most people, but it often does take a crisis.

 

[Woodznutz]

In a large percentage of situations you’re absolutely correct; but for a certain percentage of the population it’s not required. It’s a small percentage but they do exist.

For example the difference between my youngest brother and I during our childhood… he would look at a situation and say “I can get away with it 98/100 times, I’m gonna do it.” Whereas I was more “I’ll get caught and punished 2/100 times, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.”

I was like you as well, I played it safe most of the time, still do. Although it took getting periodontal disease to get me to floss.