Re: Common sense is anchor
Why's everyone on the back of institutions and learning through them? Structure to learning (when done well), builds concepts up in such a way that you can eventually grasp hard things to grasp. It's also very practical: you know when and with who and what you're getting exactly. It's organized. How can you ever expect to learn from someone else you can't, say, ever meet up? While closing the doors of infinite choice, school's opens up opportunity of some choice by being a place where you can talk to others; by simply existing.
Also, of course we've all learned stuff that we haven't learned in school. Perhaps you need to hoist anchor about what you think 'learning' is, where 'common sense' comes from, and most importantly, why you seem to think that that 'learning' is inherently not as valuable as what you're implying.
Why are you so gung-ho on being intellectual? I am because I like it. I enjoy learning and I enjoy thinking. But for someone who doesn't enjoy being intellectual, why try and push it? Do you think that everyone, by necessity of being human, has the capacity to enjoy learning/thinking as much as I'm assuming you do? Not only that, do you think that everyone has the capacity to understand things as far as you do? Another thing, it's not possible for people to constantly be learning, and for them to be hoisting up anchor. Preaching to, say, a single parent of 3 kids about exploring new intellectual grounds could even be seen as insulting, because that parent's job is extremely important. People don't have infinite time; we have to pick and choose things to do. By placing such a high value on intellectuals, you make other things less valuable.
Why's everyone on the back of institutions and learning through them? Structure to learning (when done well), builds concepts up in such a way that you can eventually grasp hard things to grasp. It's also very practical: you know when and with who and what you're getting exactly. It's organized. How can you ever expect to learn from someone else you can't, say, ever meet up? While closing the doors of infinite choice, school's opens up opportunity of some choice by being a place where you can talk to others; by simply existing.
Also, of course we've all learned stuff that we haven't learned in school. Perhaps you need to hoist anchor about what you think 'learning' is, where 'common sense' comes from, and most importantly, why you seem to think that that 'learning' is inherently not as valuable as what you're implying.
Why are you so gung-ho on being intellectual? I am because I like it. I enjoy learning and I enjoy thinking. But for someone who doesn't enjoy being intellectual, why try and push it? Do you think that everyone, by necessity of being human, has the capacity to enjoy learning/thinking as much as I'm assuming you do? Not only that, do you think that everyone has the capacity to understand things as far as you do? Another thing, it's not possible for people to constantly be learning, and for them to be hoisting up anchor. Preaching to, say, a single parent of 3 kids about exploring new intellectual grounds could even be seen as insulting, because that parent's job is extremely important. People don't have infinite time; we have to pick and choose things to do. By placing such a high value on intellectuals, you make other things less valuable.
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