Does education make you jaded?

[Royd]

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Now, if I had said, "ALL men find intelligent women threatening." This, then, would be stereotyping. I used the clarifier of "I have found..." , which would generally indicate "in my experience". By using this clarifier, I am not stereotyping ALL men, only the one's in my experience.

By reacting in the way you have, you pretty much fell into the category of the men in my experience.....

You should expand your horizons, then.

 

[GaNewChick]

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[DianeB]

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Tu Shea

 

[Royd]

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Yeah, but if you have a spinning malfunction, you'd better know where the cutaway handle is.

 

[CheepSunglasses]

"You choose to not give up on the human race even though you see the world's complexities and realize that there are no easy answers."

Thank you for that. But I can understand why people end up that way. After years of re-discovering that there is no Santa Claus, you begin to question whether anything is as you perceive it.

I don't think that everything can be answered intellectually, anyway. There was a point in my education when I realized that certain things are simply unknowable by us. We will always be limited in our understanding by our imperfections. We don't have the sense of smell of our own house pets and we don't see as well as many song birds, so how are we supposed to wrap our minds around infinity? In calculus, you just accept it and move on. On chicken lists, it's the number of unread posts written by people who know more than I do.

Some things have to be taken on faith. If the only thing I can control is myself, and I try to do the right things, I have to have some faith that, with the best information I have, what I conclude is "right," generally is. I think you really need an internal compass for a lot of decisions and arriving at the best answer isn't always a logical process. In fact, I know a lot of people with very little education who are very good at that.

 

[GrayDragon]

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There is a simple solution.

Once you come to the understanding that the world doesn't have to ever completely make sense, just go crazy and enjoy it!

 

[wombat]

I think you really need an internal compass for a lot of decisions and arriving at the best answer isn't always a logical process. In fact, I know a lot of people with very little education who are very good at that.

I agree. Intellect and wisdom are two different things. It's quite possible to have one without the other. I've known people with little education or intellect, who were quite wise, and they were amazing people. I've known people with incredible intellect, and no wisdom whatsoever, and they were .... hmm ... just plain silly.​

 

[arabookworm]

I think that it can, because when you become educated, your eyes are opened to all the problems in the world. but instead of becoming jaded, I think you can choose to try to do something about the problems.

 

[Beekissed]

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No worries, Wolf!

The fact that they feel offended, or threatened, by my post merely proves my point!

 

[Mahonri]

More food for thought...
"O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.
But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God."