To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. Is this true?

Answer 1

I think that's quite true. Repeating something just requires being told it and remembering it. To challenge something, or to check it yourself, requires understanding of what is actually happening.

The thing is: in order to challenge something requires education too. You can't challenge something unless you have had the necessary education to understand something. It takes brains, however, to take what you have been taught and apply it.

So I reckon: To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires education and brains.

How's that?

Answer 2

Not really. I would say that to repeat what others have said just requires paying attention. Understanding what others have said is what requires education. (Understanding the context in which other people say what they say, understanding their intention in saying what they say.) I would agree that to challenge what people say requires brains. That in fact is how one of my graduate school professors taught us linguistics. He would sit down, make a statement about what we had read that was slightly inaccurate and made us challenge him. Before we knew it, we were challenging established ideas and considering ways to improve them. We learned so much from him!!

Answer 3

to repeat what others have said requires education to challenge it, requires brains is this true yes it is

Answer 4

No, I don't agree. I think both need education n brains.

To repeat what others have said, one shall think, so it needs brains; to challenge it, one shall have education, coz brains rises from education.

The difference is in the amount spend in them. To challenge what others have said needs more education n brains.

Answer 5

Absolutely true. To take and example - Bertie Wooster and his fellow twits quote frequently (if inaccurately) from a wide range of sources, because they have had an education (and an expensive one, at that). But most of the time they don't know what the quote means. To challenge what has been said you must first understand it and *that* requires brains.

Did you make up this statement, or are you, yourself, quoting?

Answer 6

No. Opinions are like noses, everybody has one. Some are notable, many are not.

Challenging what others have said just requires moxie, not brains. An Intelligent debate (political debates do not qualify) requires brains.

Answer 7

In the days before every institution of advanced education in the UK became a University, we used to say that in a technical college the students wrote down what the lecturer said, in a teacher's training college they discussed it and then wrote it down and in a university they ignored it.
On this basis students at teachers training colleges were the ones with the brains.
Which is strange because even students at teachers training colleges had heard the well-known statement, 'those who can do, those who can't teach.'

Answer 8

Well now, a parrot can be taught to repeat things and a small child always does without understanding what they are saying.People will repeat things they have heard who are not educated.so no to that part of your question and the second part falls anyway given the answer to the first

Answer 9

i dont necessarily agree with the first part of your equation. sheep follow blindly without any education at all.
hence the statement "ignorance breeds ignorance" - that doesnt require education.
i'd rather say, to reach interesting conclusions requires intelligence, to challenge the conclusions of others with success, requires wisdom.

Answer 10

Maybe, but anyone can say. I don't agree, or it'll never work. Qualified challenges require brains.