we are all just educated fools
Don’t throw your education in my face and I won’t throw my intelligence in yours, is what I say to people who find my lack of proper education inconvenient to their choking turtle neck. Should I really be blame for not knowing my subjects academically, the simple answer is no, there is too much knowledge that we can’t gain the whole worlds understanding with a few book selections in a library, if you think your smart enough, think again, your just a boy scout learning what has already been discovered, your merely just practicing someone elses ideas, then the biggest shame is quoting someone elses hard work in a discussion without trying to support your arguments with quotations.
Lets take a look at mathematics for a moment, someone sat there and observed the universes and condensesed it down to numbers, I don’t know how long it took, but obviously at this point, math is used in just about everything invented or discovered or just to help us along the way for a simpler life. Now days, you can go to school and learn someone elses lifes work but it doesn’t make you smart or intelligent by any sense of the word, it only makes you an educated fool. You can live your whole life knowing how to add and subtract and never do anything significant with mathematics and that’s fine, no argument there.
A knowledgeable person isn’t necessarily smart or intelligent, for I have the same chance to learn my multiplication table, mathematics is a certain kind of thing that can be applied to anything. I am willing to admit the founders of mathematics can be known as ingenious thinkers for they saw something in the unknown world that was deduced to numbers, but now days mathematics has its foundations laid out for us to memorize, we no longer have to think much about it, because knowledge is memory, not intelligence, they’re just maxims, like saying the ABC. This can be applied to history, social studies, literature, grammar, etc. etc. we are all just learning someone elses hard work and we all think we are intelligent for saying 2+2=4 or Christopher Columbus was a explorer, or that the sun has a perfect gravitational pull.
But I will say this, those who take the rudiments of their education and apply them to newer conceptual ideas can be considered intelligent because they are attempting to evolve ideas with their education. Einstein is a genius along with every other man that has created or discovered something horrifying or something simply beautiful.
I’m only concerned with one thing only, my rationality and common-sense, I’ve meet too many educated individuals who don’t carry an ounce of intelligent thinking
