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To: Tarpon
Never confuse intellect with intelligence.

As I grow older, I have come to value "common sense" more than "book smarts".

That process actually began with a philosophy class I took my senior year in college. The "light went on" when my professor, a Jesuit priest, ripped the veneer off the mystery of philosophy: "with philosophy, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. Philosophy is nothing but a bunch of bull$hit".

I'm proud of the "B" I earned in that class. I was one of two students (of 14) in that class that wasn't a theology major.

14 posted on 04/04/2009 7:08:54 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me...I voted for Palin!)
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To: Night Hides Not
Common sense rules. What is needed to perfect common sense, is the acquisition of a sound fact base. Just what the gubbermint schools do not allow to happen. The most powerful of all human endeavors, deductive reasoning, has all but died amongst the young.

Yes, the pointy head academics think they are so smart ... and sadly are the dumbest.

16 posted on 04/04/2009 7:14:13 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, your surrender your rights.)
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