“there have been some fine thinkers with mighty little schooling.”
Yup; you’re right.
The writer said that “Intelligence is a product of classical education.”
Rush left college after one semester. Einstein, I believe, left school when he was 16. What about Gates, Jobs, and Dell — I don’t think any of them attended college at all.
I worked in H.R. for several years. Our Director was obsessed with hiring degreed people, and they were the most useless, non-productive employees. The ones who came up with the most innovative ideas, and pulled the most weight, were those who started working right out of high school and learned to think on the job.
Those with degrees actually thwarted progress. In college, they learned the cool buzzwords and how to be P.C., but could not think. They were, however, entertaining. When we needed a good laugh, we could pull out one of their written documents and ridicule the atrocious syntax, grammar, and bizarre statements which were not well-thought-out by any stretch of the imagination. (”Products of classical education”, per the writer)
Yes, I think you and Louis and I may all be in agreement.
There is very little rigorous study in how to think with most modern education. One might think a good law school would provide such, but otherwise we’ve little evidence that Obama was exposed to any education of substance.
People generally need to exercise their brains in the development of their intellect, and math and philosophy are among the best studies for intellectual development. But we probably all know people who are self-taught to good effect in either a classical sense—or in their understanding and mastery of the world around them.