@chameleon54 wrote:Erica What you ( or Eintsein ) are saying is that a person needs to be able to apply knowledge in some practicle way and if some imagination and new or experimental thought comes in to it all the better.
I feel the current emphasis on academia ( Knowledge nation etc. ) for the sake of it, is failing our young people and society in general. There is so much emphasis on university learning of theoretical skills and precious little on how we can actually get on and "do stuff". We risk becoming a nation of educated theorists who sit in offices shuffling paper, without actually doing anything or producing anything of value. There seems to be less and less people actually "doing stuff" and more and more talking about stuff, teaching stuff, and making rules about stuff ( stifling those actually "doing stuff" )
This is why we have a continually rising national debt. The academics with an over inflated sense of self importance have taken over the national debate on the countries future direction, meaning we have become a nation of talkers instead of doers. If we dont reverse this dangerous situation we will end up financially bankrupt as a nation.
IQ has its ( important ) place in science, medicine, industrial research etc. but you cant feed a nation on it. ( and those that think you can are theoretical dreamers showing very little, practicle, life skill intelligence )
Another of Einsteins quotes.
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Erica
