Posted by
glen ropella on
Jan 24, 2014; 11:32pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Live-Q-A-with-Edward-Snowden-Thursday-23rd-January-8pm-GMT-3pm-EST-tp7584887p7584897.html
On 01/24/2014 02:08 PM,
[hidden email] wrote:
> Glen wrote:
>
> "If so, then perhaps we can conclude that the _salient_ factor is the
> skepticism. I.e. the thing that distinguishes an "educated" person from
> a "trained" person is solely that the former are skeptical."
>
> I'm reminded of the Orwell remark about Gregarious Animals.
> Skeptics are not the popular kids in school..
Hm. I always wonder about those kids in school who were both popular
and ... erudite, for a lack of a better term. Some of them did seem
merely well trained. They were like encyclopedias, knew a lot of stuff
and could make associations, but never really seemed _there_ ... the
lights were on but there wasn't really anyone there. They were like
brilliantly trained, super intelligent automata.
But then some of them did show that extra spark. I remember one girl
who almost never talked at all. But when she did, to whomever it was,
she seemed to always talk directly about the core of the topic ...
without clouding it with other, arbitrary, garbage she might happen to
know. I never could come up with a satisfying classifier for the two types.
--
⇒⇐ glen
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