I'll just count myself as lucky enough to have both [Tooth] [Coffee]
And I am quite proud of how humble I am too!
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I'll just count myself as lucky enough to have both [Tooth] [Coffee]
And I am quite proud of how humble I am too!
Seriously? I thought tying your shoes was among one of the first things you learn in life! I have a couple of pairs of shoes that are "slip on" (technically- tied laces but loose enough to slip on) but that's just because I'm lazy. [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
Educated vs smart is a non-sequitor.
Education = formalized instruction on a subject, ie lots of knowledge crammed into a smaller space of time (a "good" education will also teach how to use that knowledge, to a degree... a lesser one will do that less well)
Smart/intelligent = mentally nimble; effective at acquiring, applying and extrapolating on knowledge.
Bottom line is neither is "best". People all across the spectrum are necessary to society....
We wouldn't be in space without highly educated people, (some with dubious social abilities) but not everybody needs to fit that mold.
It is becoming clear that modern industrial jobs will be leaning more and more towards people with both an education and smarts... it's just the nature of the work they will be doing.
It's good to be smart. If you are smart, you know that knowing more is better...
Also. The teacher was right about the Russia & WW2. Post WW2... the USA went home with debt and increased responsibilities in Europe & Asia. Great Britain & France began rebuilding their bombed out nations. Russia became the USSR by occupying Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, part of Germany, and more. They also got away with atrocities in large part because we (the rest of the Allies) weren't willing to "provoke that bear". A little later we realized the magnitude of the "problem" we had allied ourselves with.
There's no question the USA played a large role in defeating Germany, but the USSR was holding the best hand at the table when the dust settled.
Course, 40+ years later, they had squandered that hand, but that's another story.