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**imictiorume** · 08-28-2011, 05:06 PM

That's been my experience as well.. My parents and family in general are educated people. But they're truly educated, meaning that they can use their education to solve real world problems.

These credentialed, faculty lounge theoreticians are obviously unable to do that.. The failure brings into question the true value of their education.

The casual observer would have to be forgiven for looking at their performance and assuming the primary benefit they derived was a credential that lets them turn in powerful, politically connected circles... A place they are not otherwise qualified to be.

I guess that for many of them, it was more a question of who they knew than what. It's the same everywhere. If only there were some kind of aptitude testing to filter out the morons, that might be a start. Likewise, I have family members who are educated. For the most part, they can also go from absorbing facts, to applying them to events as they unfold.

The current system of apportioning positions of responsibility on the basis of education alone fucking sucks, big time. It needs to be shattered, and made anew. Next time, with an eye to actually empowering people of real capability, over and above people who merely spent time memorising empty facts and figures. What fucking use is that, if nothing can be done with it? I could memorise a cake recipe; that doesn't mean I could actually bake it.

08-28-2011, 05:06 PM	#37
imictiorume Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 406 Senior Member	That's been my experience as well.. My parents and family in general are educated people. But they're truly educated, meaning that they can use their education to solve real world problems. These credentialed, faculty lounge theoreticians are obviously unable to do that.. The failure brings into question the true value of their education. The casual observer would have to be forgiven for looking at their performance and assuming the primary benefit they derived was a credential that lets them turn in powerful, politically connected circles... A place they are not otherwise qualified to be. I guess that for many of them, it was more a question of who they knew than what. It's the same everywhere. If only there were some kind of aptitude testing to filter out the morons, that might be a start. Likewise, I have family members who are educated. For the most part, they can also go from absorbing facts, to applying them to events as they unfold. The current system of apportioning positions of responsibility on the basis of education alone fucking sucks, big time. It needs to be shattered, and made anew. Next time, with an eye to actually empowering people of real capability, over and above people who merely spent time memorising empty facts and figures. What fucking use is that, if nothing can be done with it? I could memorise a cake recipe; that doesn't mean I could actually bake it.
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