To: SkyPilot
When I was studying for my bachelors degree in engineering, the Asian and Jewish students kicked my rear end. They would score 90s on Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer exams, and I would barely get a "C" even with the test graded on a curve. And yet book brilliance does not equate to practical use.
Give me a less intelligent person who can actually DO something with what they know over a rocket scientist who can't remember where he parked his car.
12 posted on
12/22/2015 5:12:44 AM PST by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: metmom
Give me a less intelligent person who can actually DO something with what they know over a rocket scientist who can't remember where he parked his car. Hence my dad's phrase "Book Smart and Common Sense Dumb."
35 posted on
12/22/2015 9:39:26 AM PST by
Oatka
(ES)
To: metmom
Yes, practical use is what is important coupled with integrity, honesty and character so that the raw intelligence can be used for good.
78 posted on
12/25/2015 12:22:41 PM PST by
rotundusmaximus
(1Kings19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baa)
To: metmom
Yes, practical use is what is important coupled with integrity, honesty and character so that the raw intelligence can be used for good.
79 posted on
12/25/2015 12:36:01 PM PST by
rotundusmaximus
(1Kings19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baa)
To: metmom
Yes, practical use is what is important coupled with integrity, honesty and character so that the raw intelligence can be used for good.
80 posted on
12/25/2015 12:36:07 PM PST by
rotundusmaximus
(1Kings19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baa)
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