Colleges are not for smart people. They are for the gullible. "Fools are easily parted from their money". I haven't met a college educated person yet that could do much of anything.
Horrible generalization... obviously you either are hanging around with idiots or are not talking to the right people. Sure, some are not smart (going to college does not make you smart), but there are a lot of very smart people who go to college... a LOT smarter than you!
Don't generalize... it just make you sound stupid.
I was teaching a class in project management to a room full of high-level programmers. At one point an exercise required averaging three 3-digit numbers as a first step.
I threw it to the class for an answer and was met by stares and silence until one of them said "They didn't tell us to bring calculators." Turns out none of them had the vaguest notion how to arrive at an average.
I worked with a guy who claimed to have a BA in finance from San Jose State. He once asked me for a box of "those metal pins with big black heads." I thought he had said pens so I handed him a box of Sharpies. "No! he whined and came back holding the item he'd wanted; it was a binder clip! He also didn't know that Iowa was a state, what ceramic was, and thought "memes" was pronounced "me me's."
"For a couple years I taught first-year college students in an ENGINEERING program, the majority of whom didn’t know how to do unit conversions. Not even, like, inches-to-centimeters. To repeat … college … ENGINEERING …"
Colleges are not for smart people. They are for the gullible. "Fools are easily parted from their money". I haven't met a college educated person yet that could do much of anything.
Horrible generalization... obviously you either are hanging around with idiots or are not talking to the right people. Sure, some are not smart (going to college does not make you smart), but there are a lot of very smart people who go to college... a LOT smarter than you!
Don't generalize... it just make you sound stupid.
I was teaching a class in project management to a room full of high-level programmers. At one point an exercise required averaging three 3-digit numbers as a first step.
I threw it to the class for an answer and was met by stares and silence until one of them said "They didn't tell us to bring calculators." Turns out none of them had the vaguest notion how to arrive at an average.
I worked with a guy who claimed to have a BA in finance from San Jose State. He once asked me for a box of "those metal pins with big black heads." I thought he had said pens so I handed him a box of Sharpies. "No! he whined and came back holding the item he'd wanted; it was a binder clip! He also didn't know that Iowa was a state, what ceramic was, and thought "memes" was pronounced "me me's."
Horrible generalization... obviously you either are hanging around with idiots or are not talking to the right people. Sure, some are not smart (going to college does not make you smart), but there are a lot of very smart people who go to college... a LOT smarter than you!
Don't generalize... it just make you sound stupid.
I threw it to the class for an answer and was met by stares and silence until one of them said "They didn't tell us to bring calculators." Turns out none of them had the vaguest notion how to arrive at an average.
In the same business, the chief bookkeeper honestly believed that New Zealand was one of the Channel Islands.
They were both good at their jobs otherwise they would have been out the door.
2pi is not .28
pi is 3.14 0r 22/7
truly the blind leading the blind
2pi = 6.28... ie. he understood the .28 part