Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. Education is mostly being able to remember a bunch of facts then regurgitate them. Intelligence is creative problem solving, and being able to apply acquired knowledge to new situations and problems.
Not quite. You’re also conflating knowledge with education, and that’s not the same thing either.
To correct your flawed attempt at correcting me:
Knowledge is the accumulation of information. It has nothing to do with regurgitation and has no bearing with how one leverages it (see difference between the expectations of a bachelors degree recipient versus a doctoral degree recipient).
Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply said knowledge. Those that are less intelligent may face difficulty in learning a new concept, but that does not necessarily mean that such learning is outside of their grasp (see Homer Simpson at the nuclear power plant as a humorous anecdote to illustrate what I mean here).
So… Can an idiot be full of knowledge? Sure. Can an intelligent person be woefully ignorant of everything? Most definitely. Unfortunately for you, you are neither intelligent nor knowledgeable on the subject you speak of.
First - Yes, I did conflate knowledge with education, and on purpose. However, nowhere did I equate knowledge with education.
Tell me, in what scenario can a person be educated in a subject without gaining some kind of knowledge? Education and knowledge go hand in hand.
Second - Nowhere did I state, nor imply knowledge is the regurgitation of anything, nor did I state, “[it] has [any] bearing on how one leverages it”.
If you’d bothered to carefully read what was written, you wouldn’t have mistaken what I wrote, “education is mostly being able to remember a bunch of facts then regurgitate them”, with what you interpreted as knowledge is mostly being able to remember a bunch of facts then regurgitate them.
Third - My explanation of intelligence closely mirror that of yours. The one exception is that I omitted stating the ability to learn or understand things. I didn’t think I had to state the obvious because I wrote, “intelligence is creative problem solving, and being able to apply acquired knowledge to new situations and problems”. The omission is implied in the, “… able to apply acquired knowledge..” part of my statement.
Perhaps if you had any reading comprehension skills, an education, and/or some intelligence, I wouldn’t have to break rudimentary shit down into baby steps for you.
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u/King_Molukai Sep 05 '26
You do realize that the average service member is more educated than the average American, right?
I mean, sure, that’s really not a very high bar given the people we elected into power, but it is what it is.