2007-02-09 11:02:03 · 36 answers · asked by Ethan M 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
About to the same extent that a track suit makes you fast. I've met plenty of really stupid people with all sorts of advanced degrees.
2007-02-09 11:47:15 · answer #1 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 16⤊ 0⤋
No it does not. It helps you to become a well rounded individual. Being smart is not just I am smart. There is much more to it than that. To smart I think education helps. However you have to be street smart too and have a good sense of self. Without that you can't learn. Certain envrionments enable learning. Being learning through do, being on the street or being a classroom. All are essential. College is not for everyone either. Does that make them not smart. Not at all. College is something that is personal to each person. You can have no degree and be just as successful. So no, college does make you smart. You make yourself smart.
2007-02-09 11:37:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. IQ stablizes by the time one is 10 years old and remains stable throughout life. If you're a genius at 10, you're a genius as an adult, with or without the college education. Look at Einstein. He dropped out of high school. Never went to college or graduate school. Yet he changed the face of theoretical physics and won a Nobel Prize and became a full professor at Princeton, all without a high school education. Of course, he was very smart. He had an IQ estimated at about 160, similar to Bobby Fischer the chess champion.
2007-02-09 11:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by vt500ascott 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What smarts, is pulling out the money to pay for a college education.
To answer your question... you are already smart. A college education helps you take your smarts and build new knowledge as you focus on an area of study.
There. That's about as clear as mud.
2007-02-09 11:19:18 · answer #4 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, being smart depends on yourself, smart people decide what to do with their lives without being influenced by others' decisions. Many people go to College just because their friends decided to go, because it's what is "in" now, and at the end realizes that College is NOT for everybody, not just because money, it's also a problem of being good for studies, and not everybody is good at it, and that doesnt mean that person is not smart.
But I consider someone smarter if he knows what's better for him and what fits him better. I've seen many people in my life who have succeed greatly barely finishing high school, and how? Because they were witty and hard-working enough to do it, I'm not saying education it's not important, but everybody has to know what he or she is good at, and seize those skills the most.
2007-02-09 11:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Take that female AstroNut for instance. Lisa Marie Nowak. Very well educated person. College educated....Navy pilot.
Yet shes crazy as a loon.
There is more to being smart than a good education. You have to take into account common sense.
I have a friend who only has a high school education who is pulling in 6 figures and has a great job-management related.
2007-02-09 11:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I always tell people that it doesn't mean you are smart, it just means you have a degree (in whatever field here). That's all.
What a college education really is:
Common sense is often replaced by theory.
Wisdom is replaced by rhetoric.
Knowledge by agenda.
Only trade knowledge really works. Work in a trade.
2007-02-09 11:10:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A college education tells your future employer that you have obtained a certain amount of knowledge in your chosen field and that you are willing to see projects through to the conclusion.
2007-02-09 11:21:26 · answer #8 · answered by pretender59321 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A college education does not make one "smart." It does not change your I.Q. However, it does give you more information. It keeps you from being ignorant regarding the subjects you have, theoretically studied. Therefore, I highly recommend it.
2007-02-09 11:08:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so if you are smart you are just smart from day one and the college is not going to make you smarter than what you was from the beginning, and again it all depends on your opinion on what is smartness.
2007-02-09 11:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by maria fkun 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily. Much of college is political indoctrination and useless stuff. How many college grads can write properly any more?
'Smart' implies intellectual honesty, the ability to seek facts and to apply reason. I am a college student and I can tell you we are being condition to NOT be smart!
2007-02-09 11:03:47 · answer #11 · answered by speakeasy 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋