On 1/20/2012 7:10 PM, wrote:
On Jan 20, 6:25 pm, wrote:


Well, you're missing out. Some of them can be really funny. And lots of
people with really good personalities are not the brainy types. In fact,
I'd say my experience is the opposite. Most of the time really brainy
people are no fun to be around.

Hawke

Do you know the IQ of all of your friends? I keep telling you there
is a difference between being intelligent and having degrees. I sent
you the obit of Gary Macy. He was a very sharp individual and the
obit says he had an IQ of 187 or was it 188. Anyway he was smart, but
he did not have a degree. He did attend Colorado School of Mines ,
but did not graduate.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/a...y-lee-macy-54/

Dan

I don't know where you get the idea that I think anyone needs a college
degree. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates never got degrees and had fine
lives. If you gave them IQ tests I think you would find them far above
average in intelligence too. What I find is that people with really high
IQs are able to do well in life simply because they are smarter than
everybody else. They can get degrees if they want but they don't have
to. One of those brainy people can learn more than what someone gets
from a college degree on their own and in one year.

A liberal arts education is something different from vocational
training. Many college degrees are just job training. Not so with a
liberal arts degree. It's like what's the difference between an
"educated man" and someone trained in a specific job like math or
engineering? I say the difference is a big one. Many times someone with
a liberal arts degree goes on from there and then gets trained in a
specific vocation. But he got the liberal education for something other
than what he got from his vocational training. One thing teaches you how
to do a job and the other makes you an educated man, and it's always an
advantage to be one of those even if you never make a lot of money in
your life. You got something that the uneducated never get. You know
what it is. They don't.

Hawke