Thread: An extremist view on making a better world

2) School isn't everything. Deal with it.
School, for one, isn't about intelligence, or creativity, or inspiring people in following their passion, or remotely encouraging people to do good stuff for society, or even about shaping the persons' skills to work in society as a whole (i.e. personal finances, social skills, etc.). It is just about putting you full of information that the state thinks you need to have to be a "well-rounded individual". Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Knowledge and specialization is necessary, true... But the engine of development, of progress, is NOT knowledge. It is most of all creativity, REAL intelligence (not "Hey, I remember which city that is, I must be smart!").





You have a very vague understanding of college .

^Yeah, I suppose your philosophy perfectly explains why those who actually choose to understand the state's "silly information" tend to gain admittance to good colleges/universities thereby ensuring that they become at least marginally successful in life, as opposed to those who just blow through school on nothing but their popularity, ultimately becoming deadbeats and moochers.

Originally Posted by Dreams4free

2) But the engine of development, of progress, is NOT knowledge. It is most of all creativity, REAL intelligence (not "Hey, I remember which city that is, I must be smart!").

One of the very greatest of mathematicians of all time was david hilbert. One day he noticed that one of his students was missing and asked another student about it. The student said that he had left to become poet. Hilbert said, "Good! I never thought that he was creative enough to be a mathematician!"

This is the dude that got around the rules about women not being able to lecture by signing up to do the lectures himself and then letting emmy noether do them instead and that told hitler to fuck himself (basically) when he said he wanted the jews out of gottingen.