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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (125620)10/10/2000 12:01:24 PM
From: jcholewa  Read Replies (1) of 1570552
 
OT, Re: schooling and capacity for intellect

> Einstein had poor grades, but that was not necessarily indicative of a poor understanding of technology issues

You know, being a person of reasonable intellect who happens to have gotten his ass kicked in college (in terms of grades), I get insulted whenever somebody tries to link educational prowess with intelligence.

Personally, I identify good grades with either inhuman study skills on the order of Vernor Vinge's "focused" people from "A Deepness In the Sky" or with borderline immoral and very aggressive maneuvering amongst class material. In my stay at college, those two groups constituted the vast majority of the people whom I observed attaining high grades.

So, pbbbllltt!

-JC
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