However – when Howard Dean called the Governor “unknowledgeable,” he rolled out more than a stereotype. He rolled a pencil across the desk, and gave Scott Walker eight minutes to knock it out of the park.
However – when Howard Dean called the Governor “unknowledgeable,” he rolled out more than a stereotype. He rolled a pencil across the desk, and gave Scott Walker eight minutes to knock it out of the park.
Can’t think of many who could have said it better!
Absolutely Awesome!!
Here’s another guy talking about the same topic, Milton Friedman, The Pencil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU
The letters behind Churchill’s name were KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA – I don’t see a degree anywhere. So much for requiring a degree in politics.
Some of the people with the least life skills and common sense I have worked with have had degrees from some fairly prestigious universities; conversely, some of the smartest came out of high school. Education is not a real measure of ability, only one piece of the yardstick. Mind you, the university courses some took were either pointless or at a very low level. With Grade XIII in the dim and distant past I helped one student with the correspondence course he was taking in third year Algebra!
I wish Scott Walker well – he could certainly do no worse than the “educated” Whitehouse incumbent.
The argument is sound as far as it goes. But there is a reason why there are such things as degrees and designations that go a long way towards eliminating incompetents from being put in positions where they can cause major harm.
You wouldn’t want a carpenter designing an offshore oil rig.
And why settle for a poorly educated masterful politician when you can have a rock star intelligent and highly educated one – that man is Ted Cruz.
It appears that Obama’s degrees are doing him no good whatsoever – maybe the US should go the other way and give Mr. Walker a shot. He couldn’t do much worse!
Neither Bill Gates or Steve jobs had a college degree. Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi did. I would much rather have someone with overall intelligence working for me than a educated idiot. College today is like a participation medal if its not in one of the stem courses, and most courses are not. The dumbing down has been all inclusive.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/08/29/living/bizarre-college-courses-mf/index.html?hpt=hp_bn8
Robert Mugabe is one of the most educated leaders in the world.
I see what you are saying but also consider that schools are like puppy mills these days- pushing out whatever quality of puppy that is born. One does not always get a great engineer but a future barista who spent eight years taking gender studies classes.
Now, I am off to buy a #2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, the finest pencil there is, so I’m told.
Join a Toastmasters club and learn how to talk on any topic for 2 minutes. Great training.
The quality of a doctor graduating today may – debatably – be less than one in decades past, but I sure as heck am not getting a non-doctor to look at me.
I don’t think the pencil lecturer nailed anything really. Talking at length is a skill to be sure, but it doesn’t require formal training. Being a politician doesn’t require a formal education either. But to be a great legislator surely does in almost all cases.
Education has no bearing on intelligence as proven constantly by the Obama administration. Interesting subject though……..
http://www.education-reform.net/dropouts2.htm
George Washington had an elementary school education, no more no less.
Abraham Lincoln was largely self-educated. His formal schooling from several itinerant teachers was intermittent, the aggregate of which may have amounted to less than a year.
One man lead the American nation into existence, the other saved it from breaking into pieces.
Another Mike Rowe bit of genius;
http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs?language=en
Useless bastards can be found in all walks of life – some have university educations, others don’t. Some have government jobs, some don’t
It used to be standard preparation for Army officers to be given a random topic and have to talk about it for five minutes. That was good training for new second lieutenants. They often had to teach training subjects to the troops about which they only had a short preparation time to get it right. That also helped them in social situations, which according to the brass, were the most important thing to them.
I agree, all a university degree means now a days is that you had a good enough memeory to regugitate back the garbage your professor threw out out at you. I have a degree in engineering and cannot say that most degrees teach you how to think!
“What would your response be on college as a requirement for elected office?”
It would be unprintable!
As a matter of principle, we must never allow politicians of any stripe to “professionalize” and “credentialize” elected office in any way.
It is thoroughly incompatible with the most basic tenets of democracy.
No one is saying that credentials for certain things aren’t a must. I just don’t believe in this day and age that anyone coming out of university is smart enough to dress themselves let alone formulate policy for the rest of the populace.