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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (90447)12/3/2004 12:10:06 AM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Extremely intelligent? Highly educated?

Remember Grainne when the Scarecrow asked the Wizard of Oz for a brain? And the Wizard (not having a brain handy) said, "What you need is a DIPLOMA!"

Diplomas confer neither high intelligence nor (true) education. A Ph.D. is 50% grunt work, 40% politics, and 10% learning.

And just what is intelligence anyway? Woodrow Wilson (Ph.D.) was a brilliant scholar and had beautiful dreams of world equality and peace, but had both feet planted squarely in the air. That placed him on the same level as most "intellectuals" and predictably caused his presidency to be a failure. He could not sell the League of Nations, he could not broker an effective peace, and thus guaranteed a new world war many times worse than the first one.

So much for "extreme intelligence" and "high education."

If you were going to be marooned on desert island, would you like your company to be a dozen intellectuals who could read poetry and the classics to you -- or one good mechanic?
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