Learning
It’s no secret that I despise the use of the word “training” in the wrong context.
THIS is training:
Someone tells you what to think, and you regurgitate it back so that you can pass muster.
THIS is education:
You are given the tools to learn, in the catacombs of libraries or on-line, and then you have opportunities to debate what you have learned.
Every time I hear someone say, “I was trained as a doctor.” This is what I see in my mind:
Good boy! Here’s your treat!
When my son chose an advisor for his doctoral dissertation, the professor he picked out was notorious for his hard@$$ expectations, a person everyone else wanted to avoid.
Mystified, the professor asked, “Why would you want me?”
My son’s reply went something like this, “If I can debate you and hold my own, I’ll have no problem defending my dissertation.”
TRAINING:
EDUCATION:
It is an unfortunate truth that neither training nor education can impart common sense.
THIS is common sense:
Does anyone know the definition of common sense?
Discernment.
Yup, agree with you 💯 %
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I am starting to worry about you. I also thing its “learn from history are doomed to repeat?” And “Brueller?” Cheers,H
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My son’s favorite movie was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” I can’t count the number of times he had the VCR tape playing. The bored teacher asking, “Anyone, anyone,” was a classic.
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When I wrote this, I was uncertain about how it would be taken. Thanks for letting me know that you agree.
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That first picture? Been there done that. It was a long 8 weeks. What was the most fun we had? Glad you asked. That would be the night crawl through the firing range. It rained that day and it was around 45 degrees(F). We practiced in the daylight first. Crawling under barbed wire, through pools of rainwater. Then we stood in formation, soaking wet, for two hours waiting for it to get dark.
Once it got dark, it was back to the firing range. Except this time we had 50 caliber machine gun fire over our heads. And the pits that were just decoration in the daytime had explosions going off. We were so cold when we got back in the pools of water it was actually warmer. So some of us lingered in the water to warm up.
It was easy to figure out that the machine guns were fixed in place. So if you got between the lines of fire you could throw your rifle out ahead of yourself and get up on all fours and hustle forward instead of doing that stupid elbow crawl with your rifle in your arms.
The good ol’ days. I don’t miss them.
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My dad went through basic, too, as did several men I knew. Didn’t know anyone who said, “I want to go on that ride again.” Most expressed your sentiment about it. You did what you had to do and went through the training to survive.
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I agree with all of that especially: “It is an unfortunate truth that neither training nor education can impart common sense.”
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We’ve both known people with little education who could fix anything and who knew how to stay out of a war zone; and people who had spent so much time in universities they couldn’t understand why pretentiousness and arrogance couldn’t be used as a shield against gunfire. 😊
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Would it be : good sense could be sound judgement in practical and every day matters matters.
Some people have so much intelligence that they have no social skills and hardly hold a conversation. They also have no ability to do every day things 😜
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When that is paired with a school system teaching rhetoric instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic, that makes things worse.
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Yes indeed it really does 💜😊
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LOL & Enlightening 😍 Well said..🎉
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Thanks. 🙂
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Lovely differentiation between the two!
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