Educated does not mean Smart.
Most people in America don’t understand the difference between the two.
Educated means a person has passed a bunch of classes and has acquired knowledge in a single subject.
Smart means the ability to apply knowledge. Moreover, it means someone has the ability to take that knowledge they’ve acquired and create new knowledge for others to use or create new innovations from that knowledge.
Many erroneously believe that educated people are smart. When this isn’t the case.
A lot of people in America are educated, but they aren’t smart. They have college degrees and advanced college degrees but most lack the ability to apply any of the knowledge they’ve learned in all those college courses they took. Some of these people have read a bunch of books, but can’t take the lessons they’ve learned from those books and utilize them in their everyday lives.
The Average American may have more education than ever but they lack the critical thinking skills of a smart person with a common sense. They can’t problem solve, analyze or, even think long-term.
And this is after taking courses like Calculus and Statistics which are supposed to “teach” people how to think critically.
For all of America’s education we’re just not producing smart people in our colleges and universities. All they’ve learned on these college campuses is how to regurgitate what their professors taught them for an A on their term papers, not the critical thinking skills they’ll need to function in a changing world.
I have to ask: If people are more educated than they were 50 years ago then why are so many people making STUPID decisions?
If we’re so much more educated than we were 50 years ago why are there so many BONEHEADS running corporations? And why can’t American business and American government get its shit together and fix this economic mess in spite of there being more college educated people in the American workforce?
50 years ago we had a less educated workforce and they were able to do more than all our best and brightest people today. I dare to say a person with less than a high school diploma in 1950 was smarter than a guy with a PhD today.
Why? Because those people knew how to THINK.
I also dare to say if we took some high school graduates and stuck them at the top of most Fortune 500 companies they’d have them running BETTER than today’s college graduates.
Why? Because they have critical thinking skills. Moreover, they’d have more common sense than today’s college graduates.
I really think if you took six of today’s college graduates and put them in a room with a high ceiling and told them to change a light bulb They’d take several weeks to get it done. All six of them would sit in the room overanalyzing everything.
One guy would be analyzing cost per watt.
A second would be trying to figure out the best wattage for the bulb.
A third would be trying to figure out what brand of bulb would be best.
A fourth Hippie type would be debating the third on whether or not to use compact fluorescent or a traditional bulb.
A fifth would be on his computer looking for the best price for a bulb and a sixth would be talking about the strength and density of the ladder they were going to use and what spot would be mathematically best to position it.
When all they were told to do is change the God Damn bulb.
America is full of lots and lots of educated people. But what it needs are smart people who can take that knowledge they have dissect it and break it down in ways that can be applied in everyday life. People who can use their knowledge to create new innovations and new ideas.
I’d rather work with a smart person with a GED than an educated fool with a college degree. Educated does not mean smart.
Most people in America don’t understand the difference between the two.
Educated means a person has passed a bunch of classes and has acquired knowledge in a single subject.
Smart means the ability to apply knowledge. Moreover, it means someone has the ability to take that knowledge they’ve acquired and create new knowledge for others to use or create new innovations from that knowledge.
Many erroneously believe that educated people are smart. When this isn’t the case.
A lot of people in America are educated, but they aren’t smart. They have college degrees and advanced college degrees but most lack the ability to apply any of the knowledge they’ve learned in all those college courses they took. Some of these people have read a bunch of books, but can’t take the lessons they’ve learned from those books and utilize them in their everyday lives.
The Average American may have more education than ever but they lack the critical thinking skills of a smart person with a common sense. They can’t problem solve, analyze or, even think long-term.
And this is after taking courses like Calculus and Statistics which are supposed to “teach” people how to think critically.
For all of America’s education we’re just not producing smart people in our colleges and universities. All they’ve learned on these college campuses is how to regurgitate what their professors taught them for an A on their term papers, not the critical thinking skills they’ll need to function in a changing world.
I have to ask: If people are more educated than they were 50 years ago then why are so many people making STUPID decisions?
If we’re so much more educated than we were 50 years ago why are there so many BONEHEADS running corporations? And why can’t American business and American government get its shit together and fix this economic mess in spite of there being more college educated people in the American workforce?
50 years ago we had a less educated workforce and they were able to do more than all our best and brightest people today. I dare to say a person with less than a high school diploma in 1950 was smarter than a guy with a PhD today.
Why? Because those people knew how to THINK.
I also dare to say if we took some high school graduates and stuck them at the top of most Fortune 500 companies they’d have them running BETTER than today’s college graduates.
Why? Because they have critical thinking skills. Moreover, they’d have more common sense than today’s college graduates.
I really think if you took six of today’s college graduates and put them in a room with a high ceiling and told them to change a light bulb They’d take several weeks to get it done. All six of them would sit in the room overanalyzing everything.
One guy would be analyzing cost per watt.
A second would be trying to figure out the best wattage for the bulb.
A third would be trying to figure out what brand of bulb would be best.
A fourth Hippie type would be debating the third on whether or not to use compact fluorescent or a traditional bulb.
A fifth would be on his computer looking for the best price for a bulb and a sixth would be talking about the strength and density of the ladder they were going to use and what spot would be mathematically best to position it.
When all they were told to do is change the God Damn bulb.
America is full of lots and lots of educated people. But what it needs are smart people who can take that knowledge they have dissect it and break it down in ways that can be applied in everyday life. People who can use their knowledge to create new innovations and new ideas.
I’d rather work with a smart person with a GED than an educated fool with a college degree. Educated does not mean smart.
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