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To: epicure who wrote (238226)	11/20/2013 1:06:53 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 541842

Experience at what? Learning, thinking, reading? I have a degree in psychology, an MPA from the U of W and I have taught; and in my family alone we have two UC Berkeley graduates and a retired professor and ex chairman of the statistics department at UC Berkeley. But more importantly, I have a zillion friends who I watched metamorphose from operating at very low levels of thinking to very high levels of thinking. All due to education. The Jews educate everyone. So how do they manage that, if so many people are not college material?? If you ask any person if college changed their life, most will readily tell you it changed their life in a major way. It teaches one "higher order thinking" and "knowledge directed perception". You must not understand those concepts? Scientific American had a long article on the "expert mind"; and it flies in the face of your contentions. Most of my friends are highly educated, so I know at what level the highly educated operate at.. Do you really think you can correlate ones ability to get through calculus with sophistication of ones knowledge or learning ability? As I have mentioned before, my friend Richard K. Nelson who wrote the book: "The Island within" could not get through a basic statistics class. Yet he got a PHD at about 22/23?? (for his book "Hunters of the Northern Ice") and can teach at any university in the world and his Island book is compared to Thoreau's Waldon Pond, and ironically, was assigned to my daughter when she was at Berkeley. I am sure he could teach at Berkeley if he wanted. Students love him. He was our star. Yet by your standards he would not have been allowed to go to Berkeley. The mind, everyone's mind, continues to grow and get smarter as one studies. In fact new neurons are created all the time. But if one is not using their mind they do not stick. They disappear. Development of the mind is a lifelong endeavor and all people can benefit from education.

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