[at-l] INTJ & What we have in common

[nealb at midlandstech.edu (William Neal)]

Dave Thomas dropped out in the 10th grade.  Jimmy, my former supervisor in
waxing floors, dropped out in the 3rd grade.  He also came up with a spray
solution for buffing floors without making them slippery; after Johnson Wax
(contractor to Wally-World maintainence) told him it could not be done.  He
also could look a wiring diagrams and fix waxing/buffing machinery without
being able to read and understand the technical jargon in the manuals.  My
father was forcibly retired after his first set of heart-attacks.
Officially because of the heart-attacks, but really because they wanted to
make room for degreed engineers, machinists, and mechanics.  Shortly after
he came home, they begged him to come back as consultant.  And as a
consultant all he would have had to do is tell them what to do -- no
physical labor -- and he could still draw from retirement.  He dropped out
in the 8th grade.  Then there's the black who never went to school (in
Arkansas I think) who had a fabulous library and could read and write
classic Greek and Latin.  All self-taught...

There was one teacher who used the answers in his book and in the back of
the students book religiously: "It's by experts.  It must be right".
Everyone in our class decided to just give him the answer that he wanted on
one question that made no sense.  Except for two people who took an
"incorrect" on the question.  They wrote McGraw-Hill and MH wrote back
thanking them for calling their intention to the error.  :-)  Then there was
this university bigwig who in a big seminar said Dr. Issac Asimov meant X in
one of his fictional works.  When Dr. Asimov, sitting in the back as a
drop-in visitor, said that he (Asimov) did not mean X, the bigwig said
something to the effect, "Oh but you did mean X."  And this one prof at my
current job who could not understand why I could not have USA Today and The
WSJ out on the shelves first thing in the morning.  He could not understand
that we had a mail subscription and his neighbors got their's delivered:
"Well, shouldn't they still be here early?"...

Smarts, intelligence, and High IQ do not necessarily mean the same thing.
Just because you have Craftsman's Tools does not mean you can nail a shelf
up.  Just because you have flea market tools does not mean you cannot craft
a custom beautiful bookcase worthy of the Biltmore House.

William, The MENSA Turtle who can't tie his shoelaces (the truth)

-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Balls [mailto:cballs@verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:23 AM
To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [at-l] INTJ & What we have in common


Intelligence and schooling (education is something else again) are not the
same thing.  My sister, who has a high school GED, is one of the most
intelligent people I know.  Mostly because she keeps an open mind.  I've
worked with university graduates who couldn't write a simple, declarative
sentence and they had all the answers.  There's often more conceit than
learning in so-called "education."  Higher Education is one of the biggest
scams around. Practically every nincompoop you run into these days has got a
university degree.

C



> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Bob C.
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:28 AM
> To: Shane Steinkamp
> Cc: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> 
>So brilliant he didn't feel it necessary to
> learn
> anything about town government before making his recommendations. He
> succeeded
> in messing up the town for years.
> 
>   Weary
> 
> 
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