It reminds me of something that happened when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I was sitting in a barber's chair and we were talking about knowledge and wisdom.
He pointed over to a man sweeping up the hair that had been cut in the barber's office that day.
Here is what the barber said about this man: "The Barber Said, "You see that man over there sweeping up hair clippings?"
I said "Yes."
"Well. That man has a PHd in both Math and Physics. However, he could find no practical use for his knowledge simply because he wasn't entrepreneurial enough to do that. So, basically what I'm saying here is there is knowledge and then there is the practical use of that knowledge and they are not the same.
As I look back this was almost 70 years ago but it stuck with me and I have looked at education differently after this experience.
There is knowledge and there is Wisdom and often they are very very very far apart.
I think Einstein said it best: "Intelligence isn't very useful unless you have common sense too".
I have seen people buy themselves a Ferrari and then drive it into a wall the same day because they had no business at all being at the wheel of a Ferrari.
Within a few blocks of where I am the boyfriend of a girl 18 let his new girlfriend at the wheel of his very powerful Mustang. She died within a few minutes as she crashed it into a tree.
Knowledge is one thing and wisdom is another and unless you have common sense intelligence only gets you dead or maimed and that's all.
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