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 façade, smoke-screen and mirrors.

i strongly agree. just not with the bold font.