You should go to just enough college to not have imposter syndrome and know how absurd that argument is
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By the way, I’m really not opposed to college degrees necessarily. I’m opposed to the idea that if you don’t have one you are forever handicapped
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It depends upon what someone thinks it means to "learn how to think"; most such in a school environment is a combination of recitation of memorized information, or how to think within already given structures of thought, already created sciences, idealogies, belief systems, etc.
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For myself, thoughts about "how to think" invariably reach the topic of training the mind to use the senses: http://www.newvillage.net/Journal/Issue3/3young2.html … But that is not a very popular topic, though it surprises me to hear folk talk about the mind without mentioning the senses.
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"It turned on aspects of his personality, of his brain, and of his mind, so that when he finally went back for his reading comprehension and the SATs he scored very very well, and there was no tutoring in reading, there was no academic training, there was only tracking. "
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It seems to me that many folk are interested in climbing the social system of social rankings/wealth/prestige; in which case, the academic system acts as a series of winnowing events relative to topics like the current social interpretations of what it means to think.
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