You’re right that Obama is a doctrinaire ideologue, but there have been some fine thinkers with mighty little schooling.
Incorrect. Little public indoctrination, perhaps. To become a fine thinker requires substantial schooling, typically home schooling.
“there have been some fine thinkers with mighty little schooling.”
Yup; you’re right.
The writer said that “Intelligence is a product of classical education.”
Rush left college after one semester. Einstein, I believe, left school when he was 16. What about Gates, Jobs, and Dell — I don’t think any of them attended college at all.
I worked in H.R. for several years. Our Director was obsessed with hiring degreed people, and they were the most useless, non-productive employees. The ones who came up with the most innovative ideas, and pulled the most weight, were those who started working right out of high school and learned to think on the job.
Those with degrees actually thwarted progress. In college, they learned the cool buzzwords and how to be P.C., but could not think. They were, however, entertaining. When we needed a good laugh, we could pull out one of their written documents and ridicule the atrocious syntax, grammar, and bizarre statements which were not well-thought-out by any stretch of the imagination. (”Products of classical education”, per the writer)
Once a person can read and write he has the basic tools to educate himself to a great extent.