Does education make you jaded?

[Boyd]

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I think you just answered your first post

The world needs more people like you!

 

[joebryant]

Actually, you'll realize someday that no matter how much "college" you have, the fact is that you forgot 90% of what you learned in class almost immediately after having a test on it. Then a few years later, you learn that much of what you learned as "facts" became proven to be someone's false theories. Then later you accepte the fact that you can't remember 3% of the remaining +or-5%. Then you accept that the remaining 2% seldom prove to be useful.
What's important though is that if your major is your profession, you have to spend a lot of time recalling and staying up with the study, whatever it is.

EDIT: Somewhere in all the mumbo jumbo you, hopefully, learn to be a "thinker", whatever that is.

 

[1stepcloser]

Albert Einstein said "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school."

 

[joebryant]

I learn as much on forums like this one as I ever learned in college. The internet is a GREAT informal "education", and much better that at least 75% of the college courses being taught. I'd've never learned as much as what I've learned here if I'd been in a classroom.

 

[Camelot Farms]

I agree JoeBryant...education is about becoming a critical thinker.

 

[meriruka]

As a yankee city girl who moved to the rural south, I can tell you it was quite an adjustment. The world here is much smaller. I'm the only person in the area with a computer, the only one who traveled the world, the only vegetarian, the only single woman over 40, the only woman without kids, on & on.
Very few people here will even speak to me, they think I'm crazy.
They are concerned with their families & farms, working hard to make ends meet. The way their families have done for generations.

When I chat with the few neighbor friends I've made, we don't talk about world events, or history or philosophy, we talk about crops, the new pastor at the church, who is going to have a baby, the weather, etc. Sometimes it is frustrating not to have deep discussions, so I keep in touch w/ my northern cosmopolitan buddies and feel better.

What I can say is that everything I know isn't worth squat down here: when the tractor breaks, the garden fails in this ridiculous solid clay, when a tree falls on the neighbors fence, when a cow dies giving birth to a calf. Guess who bails me out every time? My wonderful 'uneducated' neighbors.

Thanks to them I'm far more self sufficient. After 4 years, they will actually taste all the weird stuff I grow in my garden, they like the stories I tell about traveling, they value my opinion now. They bring me every lost, orphaned, injured, abused animal instead of shooting it, they invite me to gatherings & even fix some things without meat.

Your education gave you a wider view of the world & don't trade that for anything. I guess I'm just saying education doesn't make you better than others, it just gives you the tools to excel in realms that others can't. Go slow & give them a chance. Respect them & they will begin to respect you & even listen to what you have to say. Who knows? Maybe they'll begin to agree with your views and try to help make changes in the community......

 

[Chickenmaven]

As far as the "jaded" sentiment goes, I think that when you see alot or learn alot, you should know much about the positive and negative aspects of issues. JADED people are those that choose to attend to the negative aspects. I frankly think that they are taking the easy way out. It takes far less brain-power to criticize than it does to imagine solutions. IMHO - if someone is jaded, they have given up. Jaded means that one has learned some negative stuff and has stopped there.

 

[Mahonri]

What one considers rational, another may consider totally irrational.

Food for thought.

And don't you think it is a tad judgmental to state that someone is just spouting off what they heard on the radio? Did you ever consider that is how they really feel?

I've got lots of education and have come to the conclusion that sometimes we just "think" we are learned.

 

[Camelot Farms]

Great points Meriruka. I am in the same position...from NY to SWVA and I love it here. What I love is the relaxed pace, the 'old time' family values, quiet neighborhoods, etc. I wouldnt trade it for the world but as you mentioned...it did take some getting used to.

Another thing to think about is... Is change really needed or necessary? There are many things that I would like to see done differently in my new community but upon reflection, maybe things are fine just the way that they are.

Change and the need for change is often based on personal perception. What one person thinks is broken and thus requires fixing, another person may find is just fine the way that it is.

So, how do we know if change is needed or even wanted?

 

[joebryant]

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YEP!

No matter how much "education" you have or where you are, there are a whole lot of "uneducated people" (whatever that's supposed to mean) all around you who know a whole lot about a whole lot that YOU don't.