Posted on 03/06/2017 12:24:43 PM PST by Twotone
Permit me to suggest a semesters worth of work that some college students may wish to undertake: Study the life of John Lennon and, after you finish reading two or three biographies of the famous leader of The Beatles, go read The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. When you have completed those assignments, read Malcolm Gladwells Outliers. The purpose of this proposed curriculum is to understand how the abandoned son of an English sailor became one of the most influential figures in popular culture during the remarkable decade of the 1960s. What was it about Lennon, or the circumstances of his childhood, that enabled this boy from Liverpool and his friends to conquer the musical world? Ah, but first things first.
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That was a good article. Lennon showed what’s wrong with our public school system.
Once there was a time..
there are places I remember...
Good read! Thanks for posting!
Except I’m not entirely aggreable with the author’s apparent assumption that all the smart people are in the elite universities, and its correlative: that rural dwellers and sons of truck drivers are the low IQ folks left behind.
Farmers and truck drivers are among the smartest people I know. But they and their conservative perspectives are being shut out of the elite universities, not pulled in. There’s no “brain drain” in flyover country. What there is, due to current socioeconomic conditions, is a whole lot of WASTED potential.
Instant Karma’s gonna get you....
I’m sooo-oh-oh tired...
Lennon was a victim, so to speak but I really hate using that word because he refused to allow himself to be a victim, of their educational system. While it kept him out of their higher educational system, it opened the door for him on the path that suited his personality. It allowed him to be rebellious, while also allowing him to nurture his gift of creativity.
One of my most favorite songs by him is Working Class Hero. Why? Because it really tells his entire life story, and if you want to be a success there is no better venue than his chosen career.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world... You...
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one The Guy was a Moron...A liberal in Disguise..
Intelligence is not just limited to spouting back things you can memorize.
Those intelligent people you speak of can be very smart & creative, especially when faced with a problem. They are able to find a solution even with minimal resources at their disposal.
Whereas the vast majority of those coming into the workforce from major universities & colleges cannot think beyond what they were taught.
To put it in other words they are fantastic at remembering what they were taught, and even applying it, but most have no ability to think beyond that. Thus they are not the innovators within their field of study.
Real intelligence is when you can think beyond what is the norm, so to speak. To teach yourself beyond the basic building blocks provided to you, even when they directly are opposed to what you were taught.
As for some of those, not to bright folks in colleges & university's, they are the children of the rich alumni. Not really very smart, but then they cannot sponsor entire student body of those within the hallowed halls of higher learning and need monetary infusion from those rich alumni. 8>)
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