Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Over Educated

Overeducated, and what does that mean to the average American layman. To be truthful I can’t answer for them all, but I consider myself one of them and can tell you what overeducated means to me.
It all starts with an individual’s attention span which varies widely but itself has an average. Based solely on exposure time and access to knowledge, that places limits on the accumulation of knowledge. Like memorizing times tables so at least up to the twelve’s you don’t have to think you just regurgitate, but beyond the twelve’s you have to use the formulas of multiplication and divide and actually calculate.
Now let’s suppose that we put a child in math class but only mentioned the formulas for multiplication and divide once or twice, and for the rest of twelve years we just kept forcing memorization of tables as far as we could carry them. Would anyone suggest that, that now young adult was a math wiz, hardly! The reason is that child was over educated with memorizing and it cannot be undone without an equal effort and time on other mathematical techniques and memorizing tables and formulas etc if not used with some regularity will sink deeper over time in memory, becoming harder and harder to access.
Now sticking with the mathematic scenario; there is something else that could be missing, and that is practical application. You may give examples in teaching, but they will be quite limited based on the teacher’s real life experiences with the subjects at hand, and in most instances that could be quite limited or derived from myth fanciful theory or nil, and real world applications and experience is a necessary ingredient if someone is to intellectually obtain a real value of understanding of all those years of absorbing knowledge. Thus to sum it all, we have not only given knowledge, but need a thorough real life understanding of that knowledge beyond the classroom. Therein enters what is called real world commonsense. As apposed to Classroom nonsense.
If a student in there studies is fed myth and classroom nonsense in tandem with knowledge, they will enter society at large as very smart or knowledgeable; but ignorant of real life commonsense and/or understanding of the very knowledge they acquired. This condition also cannot be undone but by contradiction in the class room of real life over equivalent time and effort.
All the preceding in the overall educating of people makes for not only, overeducated people but ignorant in commonsense and real life analysis of every aspect of our American society. And the average layman doesn’t understand how to rein it in, I understand it but not very sure how to rein it in, other than to write about it in hopes of enlightening others.
Science, analysis and society when under the control or influence of so many over educated people is destined to destroy itself unless we can recognize the difference between real life ignorance of the American classroom and the real life experience and analysis of the real world.
If I tell you that wearing seat belts saves lives. That sounds logical, but how I arrived at that conclusion is important, if for no other reason than if placed into law, I lose the freedom of choice to use one or not, And although it appears logical or simply commonsense I place a higher value on my personal freedoms than a un-proportional or unrealistic risk factor.
Was data obtain in balance, like how many people killed in crashes not wearing seat belts verses those wearing them. The answer is yes! So does that satisfy me or convince me to give up my freedom of choice to risk or not to risk, the answer is no! Way too many other factors were not part of the evaluation and analysis to draw the conclusion.
For examples;
Was data collected in all those crashes of those wearing seatbelts that also died verses those not wearing them did not die the answer is no!
How many of the crashes were do to reckless driving and their relationship to wearing or not wearing seatbelts the answer is no!
Were the number of people driving without seatbelts not in accidents verses those wearing them, the answer is no!
Was seatbelt use in aircraft crashes considered in the survival rate answer no!
Was internal injuries considered, caused by seatbelts verses no seatbelts, answer no!
Was the death or injuries caused, measured in different states, roads and going up hill or down or on the flat? The answer is no!
How many people were killed by being held in place and crushed or impaled? The answer is no!
All these data points and analysis’s and others I did not include were not considered for good reason, they may point to other factors not related to wither a seatbelt was worn or not that caused the death of some and not others.
And it is all implemented via overeducated people in high places, that either don’t know how to do the job outside of a classroom or they are to lazy to do the work, and would prefer to act as mom and dad to all we laymen citizens.
Anytime and every time data collected under the dynamic conditions of moving objects and/or the dynamics of human behavior it is mandatory that every possible scenario be included in order to draw a inference as to cause and effect, and it must be done with legitimate well documented evidence before we should even consider or attempt to restrict human freedom of choice. That is, as long as you’re not my mom and dad which society is not!
Now I used the example of mandatory seatbelt use because I know many people can relate to that abuse of power, but it was not anything to do with wither seatbelts are good or bad, but the unjustified and I might say unconstitutional way they remove freedom of choice from us all.
In America today we have literally hundreds of individual freedoms already stripped from us with hundreds more in the works and virtually none come from truly educated men and women using reliable evidence and analysis, where their education was taught by teachers to supplement yours and my own judgment’s about how we control our own lives and pass it off as they know better because they went to this or that school or received such and such a degree granting their attendance before some of the most wacked out professors in the world, qualifies them to make judgments’ about you and me. When the truth is they do not intellectually hover over the ordinary layman citizen.
Global warming and it causes; Terrorism and its causes; Guns and crime; Speed limits; Constitutional law;
The economy; Not too be a bore but this list could fill several books so that’s as far as I will take it, but none have a solid foundation in the real world we all live in, they all rest on unfounded, unvetted and undocumented theory. Only those who are overeducated it seems will fail to separate the wheat from the chaff, it’s now an ego thing for them.
GAP

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