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August 30, 2005 at 11:33 am #22837
Fakename11
ParticipantAlways the barriers preventing people who want to make a difference from doing so. I understanding training is neccessary but a lot of people just don’t do well in school. And that is a fact. Why? School teaches one to memorize and dulls the mind and leaves you half comotose ready for the “real world”. Come on. Give me a break. So much goes into account leaving visionaries in the darkness because of their GPA.
If I had it my way grades would not exist. People would learn like they did back in the day of the guilds. They would use information and apply. Sorry I am not a recorder that can only rewind and press play for tests. I learn the concepts yet school leaves me bored out of my mind. And WOW, the sad thing is I want to learn.
It’s always the beuracrats(sp who gives a damn?) and the “big wigs” standing in the way of people. Remember Thomas Edison and how the school system spit him out? He did what? He invented over 1,000 things. Imagine that. Someone with a drive to learn, who taught himself virtually everything he knows. Imagine that.
I just don’t get these folks. It’s all about money and grades and status. Key to successful undergraduate degree is high memorization ability, a low level of creativity and a mind that can survive the lulling effect of all the garbage that comes with it.
I wonder how many visionaries have been spit out. How many people who could of advanced research have been told “No”, your dumb. You have ideas? Who cares, your scores are low. Oh and when you should of been studying you were working on projects. How stupid?
Anyway, have a great life “brilliant” people. Maybe I will invent a few things, who knows? Too bad everything is so language dominated. I mean how do we learn anyway, its the subconcious right? when things become automatic. But school, no school is about rules/regulations and how to drown our future minds.
Anyway, yall have your fun. Reject anything new so you can be proven wrong. Cuz hey history repeats itself right? And anyone with original ideas is dumb. They don’t have high scores on stupid tests.
The fact that we even test is primitive. Think about that.
September 3, 2005 at 3:28 am #30208yokelridesagain
ParticipantUm, I don’t quite get the point of this post. Is this supposed to be directed toward medical school admissions?
Medical school (the classroom years, at least) is dedicated to memorizing a morass of facts; if you do not memorize the facts, you will be incompetent and kill people. Most people would rather have a physician with a lack of creativity who knows the vast, vast number of facts required to function as a doctor than a “visionary” with “ideas” who didn’t bother to memorize which drugs cause death when mixed together, and other such minutiae.
Ninety-nine percent of success in clinical medicine is being conscientious and dilligent in learning and applying knowledge; having creative thoughts is all well and good, but plays a surprisingly small role in taking care of actual patients. Nobody wants a “visionary” appendectomy.
A good physician does not need a brain with high end processing speed in the CPU; a nice middle of the road model works quite well. What is needed is a tremendous amount of RAM; all those admittedly imperfect tests and grades are assessments of how much RAM you have.
September 3, 2005 at 9:58 am #30209brandonw_395
ParticipantWell said yokelridesagain. I sure am glad he calls himself fake name or I might have thought his handle was his real name…
Not that there’s any reason to pile on, but most inventors I know, personally and otherwise, did well in school. So while fake name shouldn’t feel the need to feel low self esteem over poor grades and test scores, that’s also not a license to show bitterness to others.
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