On Jan 21, 3:11*pm, "ATP" wrote:
"Hawke" wrote in message

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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

Math is not vocational training and it is actually part of a good classical
education, although you won't get a good background in math at a less
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Could you expand on that statement?

Math is math...and mostly taught from a textbook.

TMT