Quote Originally Posted by SpiritLevel
I'm sorry for this long post.

Having a degree doesn't make one intelligent. I know many people with one, two, or more degrees and not all, or many of them are greatly intelligent.

Having a degree, in my personalised view, only represents one's affinity to follow a curriculum mapped out by a government. Is that intelligence? Getting a good grade doesn't mean you got the correct/truthful answer, it means your answer matches that of the person who is marking your exam paper. Essentially you have learned only what the government want you to learn and 'little' much else.

No good holding up your degree like its some great accoloade or 'what not'. It is merely a token that you have accepted a 'degree' more system programming than the average person that hasn't been certified in that way.

Intelligent, according to my dictionary, means (1) adj; clever, (2) n intellect; information, esp. military.

There ain't a fat lot clever about following in the path of academia and not questioning the legitimacy of the information brought to you, while taking for granted that the governance of the current curriculum in force hasn't fallen into disrepair like all other aspects of politics.

To be intelligent, then, is to utilise one's intellect. Intellect is the Power of Thinking and Reasoning. If one realises their intelligence only after acquiring a degree then their new found Intelligence is based on their subjugation to academic institutions.

In my view this isn't their own pure mode of thinking but an attained mode which arrives with good grades and a borrowed way of thinking gained by years of listening to teachers and lecturers who mostly have the same level of intelligence because they went through the same conditioning process.

The only good thing is that you still smoke pot and someday you might have an awakening to the faƧade, smoke-screen and mirrors.

Wow. I was reading and for like the first 2 paragraphs I was with you. Then I started getting into education and how it's really what the government fabricated for us? Cmon now, I am mathematical guy myself. I want/am going to be (and in college right now for...) a high school calculus/geometry teacher. I love math. It's ALWAYS true. Prove it false once in geometry and it can never be true. What else is like that?? It's legit everytime, it HAS TO make sense, if it is wrong...it's wrong. Don't see the gov't tampering with that? Even my American Democracy teacher this year in college was hardcore AGAINST how the government was being ran. Seriously dude.... I see a few possibilities. I won't go out and SAY you're not in college or didn't go to college, but the way you speak it makes you sound bitter. Bitter because you didn't make it in school and need to blame it for your shortcomings, or because you never went to college at all and you have no idea what it's even like?

Seriously....you remind me of a completely un-cool slightly dumber version of Stephen Hyde off of "That 70's Show." On that show Hyde is cool as hell because at least his idea of the government isn't exttreeeemmmeeeellllyyyy crazy and he's a rational dude.....you...are just wrong??