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Califbill

"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 10/8/2014 2:34 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

I noted the word "almost". I think life experience trumps upper level
post-grad courses. I don't have that level of academia experience, so
it's just an opinion on my part.

Depends how you absorb learning. Certainly reading Shakespeare for
content can grant a lifetime of experience.
But until you're on the street you might not get street smarts.

You are often an interesting example of contradiction to me. On one
hand you extol the virtues and benefits of an extensive education that,
as you point out, is designed to "discipline" one's brain for abstract
thinking yet you often present with a fully cured, concrete thought
process when it comes to certain subjects. I think you learn and gain
more by keeping an open mind.

Agreed. But it doesn't hurt to call a spade a spade.
There's plenty of spades. Of course the gyre turns.

Shakespeare scared the crap out of me .... no, wait ... it was reading
Edgar Allen Poe that scared the crap out of me. I read "The Cask of
Amontillado" when I was about 12 or 13 years old. Shouldn't have.

The family was nuts. Supposedly Poe's niece lived in a house where I grew
up. Piled tires under the house and torched house and her. We found lots
of charcoal when we dug the garden.