Does education make you more intelligent?

[Mojavpa]

school can possibly hinder your intelligence. It teaches you to conform, to not question authority, and to accept popular opinion. Becoming a robot isnt the same as being intelligent. Of course this depends on where you go to school.

Mojavpa Reviewed by Mojavpa on 09-21-2005. Does education make you more intelligent? I believe that intelligence is something you are born with or without. Intelligence to me is how your brain works, not what it can remember. I consider somebody intelligent not by how they speak or what facts they remember, but how they percieve the world around them and the conclusions they draw from those perceptions. Education, I think, is different. You can study to the highest level but still not be all that smart. So my question is do you think education can actually make a Rating: 5

[GHoSToKeR]

It makes perfect sense, FunkyMonkey! Excellent post, man! I totally agree! Thanks!!

Hmmm Mojavpa... what if that robot is Hal? Or Marvin? Or Tweaky? Or Bender!?!? Does anybody even know who i'm talking about? lol

[Mojavpa]

It makes perfect sense, FunkyMonkey! Excellent post, man! I totally agree! Thanks!!

Hmmm Mojavpa... what if that robot is Hal? Or Marvin? Or Tweaky? Or Bender!?!? Does anybody even know who i'm talking about? lol

Bender is cooler than a school-educated nerd.

[mrdevious]

I believe some types of intelligence you are born with and stuck with, for instance critical thinking skills. however, the brain does become more proficient at skills when those skills are excercised, so some areas of intelligence capable of being enhanced. for instance, if you take somebody who lives in the jungle from birth with no education, and ask "what's 7 x7", they'd have to get out a bunch of rocks or something and count them up. but through excercising the mathematic parts of the brain, even if we don't remember "7x7=49", our brains are more used to adding up the numbers in your head.

or perhapse a clearer example. My dad is very intelligent, but can't play video games at all. because I've played video games all my life, when I play a new game with completely unfamiliar controls, I'm able to figure out the controls considerably faster and easier than my dad, even if it's on a new system that I've never played on. it was only 2 years ago that I played my first RPG (morrowind, then knights of the old republic), and it was the first time I ever played an xbox. I managed to learn the games very fast, because my brain had learned how to addapt from previous experience with the N64, even though I only played shooters.

[KronicKing]

intelligentce is from you life expiriance i think,all are boor on a certain leve;l and compete with those on their level to determine who is the best,educated and intelligent are two differnt things,to be intelligent you must have knowlege,logic,and wisdom,but to be educated you must know when a book was writen and it's content.sorry if this doesnt make sence but i'l VERY drunk and cant artticulate normaly,and sorry for any misspelled words,i tried to correct them as i went but,once again.i'm drunk so i cant really tell witch glyphs mean what

[NowhereMan]

thinking .....

i dont fucking think so
i just hope fucking not
becuase i slept thru english class
stoned on my ass on pot


well we see some of the smartest people do some stupid things dont they?

ol' sigmon the coke head froid' would say we all have a weak area, or at least as i understand the stoned mad doctor's work,

i classify intelligence as the ability To Learn,
not measured in quantity
but quality plays a part of it.

if you can do algebra you are more educated than me now,
couldnt multiply a fraction now used to make 'C's at least in that class.
forget any them complicated things i did in drafting class.

im proof of the use it or lose it theory.its a fact.
but that still dont mean u R more intelligent.

or does it?
lets ask the 8 ball

[mrdevious]

intelligentce is from you life expiriance i think,all are boor on a certain leve;l and compete with those on their level to determine who is the best,educated and intelligent are two differnt things,to be intelligent you must have knowlege,logic,and wisdom,but to be educated you must know when a book was writen and it's content.sorry if this doesnt make sence but i'l VERY drunk and cant artticulate normaly,and sorry for any misspelled words,i tried to correct them as i went but,once again.i'm drunk so i cant really tell witch glyphs mean what

don't worry, you're doing much better than I would if I was drunk .

[GHoSToKeR]

Exactly, Z! That's the point I was trying to make, too! There's crap loads of stuff I've forgotten since school, but we also learn stuff after leaving school too. Alot of what we learn is school is pointless trivia, but like somebody said earlier school is to excercise your brain, get it working in different ways.

I agree that intelligence should be classified your ability to understand and to comprehend. And I agree that it's not really quantifiable, either.

In todays society it's almost as if your amount of money and material possessions dictates how clever you are. A poor person is looked down upon, and a rich person is looked up to. If you can do well in todays society than your opinion counts for more... so does that mean by todays standards intelligence is measured in material wealth?

[ArtRollins]

You guys actually went to school?

I think I have an 8th grade diploma somewhere buried. Did you really need what they teach in those prisons? They always looked like bad factories to me. The one I was supposed to go to had barb wire around it and was dark and dingy, it was public school in Chicago called Morgan Park, and it was nothing to do with a park. You had to carry a knife to make sure you could walk around it.

I drove trucks and motorcycles instead.

[Euphoric]

Humans were not always so destructive. We only have that impression because written history is the history of the West. What changed? How did the West de-evolve? The answer goes back to the history of ancient Greece. What was the philosopher Socrates sentenced to death for? Socrates was sentenced to death for heresy; he taught that the Immortal Principles, which could be either MEASURED, or PROVED mathematically, were above the Gods. This was the beginning of both EMPIRICISM, defined in Webster's as "the theory that sensory experience is the only source of knowledge," and the opposite but equally dangerous theory of RATIONALISM; "that reason, or intellect is the true source of knowledge, rather than the senses."