Re: Intellegence -vs- education... are they equal?

Posted by howdy1960 on June 06, 2014 at 08:12:45 from (173.191.206.189):

In Reply to: Intellegence -vs- education... are they equal? posted by NCWayne on June 05, 2014 at 22:53:22:

As for myself I walked away from high school in my senior year as I was that bored with what I was being taught. (I went back 10 yrs later and got my GED and was in the top 7% in NYS) My interests are TOO vast. I am a jack at many trades, master of nothing. I can proof read however I can't spell (as you can tell if you read this post).
It's not what I know, it's who I know that knows what I need to know.
I come here to learn so that puts many/most of you on the list of smartest poeple I know and I thank each and every one of you for giving that help to each and every one of us that don't know!!

I know/ have known so many intellegent/ smart people in my 54 yrs that I dont know where to start or stop.

My FIL is probably at the top of the list. I don't know his formal education level but when he joined the navy during WW2 he wasn't allowed to fight as his older brother already was doing that. Instead he was taught how to build a ship from keel to antena. He built his current home with help from his family and friends. From designing it to the final finishing nail he did it. Today, at 88, he can't see or hear well enough to do things around his home.

My Dad ties my FIL. My Dad was, and always will be, the smartest man I have ever been blessed with knowing. He could do math faster in his head than I could with a adding machine. He ran a grader for NYSDOT for most of my life. He was the last "crane and shovel" operator in NYSDOT during the 80s. He was a Korean Vet and all I can say about his 'specalty' is that as kids we weren't allowed to wear he old uniform shirts till he removed the arm patch and didn't get his DD-214 till he was 65.
He had a saying that I have trouble living by: Poeple will be poeple!
His formal education was a high school diploma.

My Mom was/is a very smart lady that in her advancing yrs isn't using her commom sense as much as she used to. She worked at Syracuse University for 30 yrs as a head secratay for undergrads. She guided many through the maze of classes to get the right courses. Just think how many 'educated beyond intellegence' she worked with LOL. Sitting in her office one time I met a young man that was a Prince and then his father 'The King' of a small country in the mideast During her last illness whe received cards from around the world

A local farmer's obit would have been shorter had they posted what he didn't know. I found out later that top educators from places like Cornell would contact him with questions.
He once gave my SWMBO the compliment of how good she was doing with pasture managment for the horses. I didn't realize how high of praise that was till we read his obit.

In closing, I have been blessed with meeting many, many smart and intellegent people in my life time.

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