Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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2008-10-13 14:32:10

team player; as I had heard often in my University years…your grades are only proof of on a certain day, of a certain year, you able to remember a measured(graded) quantity of information…why do so many people believe that a diploma is proof of intelligence? It’s proof that you can be taught, not that you are intelligent; they are not the same thing. An intelligent person is able to think and weigh through an arguement given the information from differing views, someone who is taught doesn’t necessarily learn to discern anything but can give back what they have learned, with out ever having used their intelligence to think through something and argue their conclusion…