2007-03-30 14:20:18 · 10 answers · asked by ♥ Myfaeia Arae Colath ♥ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
because they are so busy putting others down and not caring about ppl they forget to use them
2007-03-31 09:24:59 · answer #1 · answered by sweet_lonely_leo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, like one of the other posters implied, that you're confusing natural ability and potential with having the skill to use that natural ability and potential.
With the vision thing....its one thing to be able to see, but I think what you are talking about in the question has more to do with *insight* or with *perceptiveness* than with having 20/20 vision. Anyone can have the 20/20 vision, or not, that is just what you're born with.
However, having insight means you've been taught to interpret what you see in a certain way...and perceptiveness means you've been taught to *look around* and notice things. And while smart people can do some of this stuff on their own, if you want people who are really perceptive or insightful, you *have to* teach them at least the basic skills. This is why we *tell* kids, over and over again, to "look both ways" before crossing the street, until it becomes a habit, because a kid can *see* a car coming regardless, but if he or she isn't *looking for cars*, having good eyesight doesn't help. Likewise, this is why a *good* parent worries and stresses so much about teaching their teenagers about the "birds and the bees" the right way....because it's important, it isn't just about the moment--about the sex--, but about the consequences of it too--relationships, pregnancy, and STD prevention at least. Any one of those three things can ruin lives, *especially* if the teenagers involved don't "see it coming", right?
And minds work the same way, only more so....natural intellect only means so much until it is trained to think in a certain manner. This is the broader meaning of higher education at the collegiate level: it isn't just about learning *the* calculus--those gnarly maths skills--but about learning *a* calculus--broadly speaking a *way of thinking* that you can apply throughout your life. In this sense, maths are a calculus, but so is the scientific method, and so is history, and so is psychology, and so is politics. Each of these things teaches you to think about and look at the world in certain ways. For example, with history, you learn to see the world as Sam Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) once put it: "History never repeats itself, but it *does rhyme*." Meaning you look for patterns, try to see where people and the societies they live in are either learning from their pasts or somehow *repeating them*.
So yes, in short....it's one thing to have excellent vision, and excellent natural intellect...it's another thing to *know* to look both ways before crossing the street, and another thing still to have a method by which you can think about, and make sense out of the world you live in.
Vision and intellect come naturally....insight, perceptiveness, and a calculus (a way of thinking), have to be taught.
Hope this helps, and thanks for your time! ^_^ Good question.
2007-03-31 02:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People with good eyes and minds don't know how use them.
2007-03-30 21:30:25 · answer #3 · answered by nancy_biri 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "eyes" part I don't understand, but I've seen a lot of people with good minds lose them to immaturity, bad choices in life, drug abuse.....
2007-03-30 21:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that because it requires a lot of common sense and just doing people figure that its easier not to use them both and just use on or the other like my friend she is very smart but she cant see that she is doing things the wrong way and so i will graduate college before her do to the fact that she is all warped up in a guy
2007-03-30 21:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by sweetqueen_brat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because those with "not" good eyes and minds use them..hetehe
2007-03-30 21:22:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont know. I have a good brain and I intend to use it. Those who also have a good brain should also use there. i cant tell u why they dont...and the onbly thing i can think of that they wont...is that they just arent interested...they arent paying attention to whats ahead of them.
You also have a good mind...use it wisely!
=]
2007-03-30 21:26:14 · answer #7 · answered by Teenager 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. It's so sad when people take their eyes, health, etc. for granted. It's all a gift from God.
2007-03-30 21:25:04 · answer #8 · answered by foreverme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lazy.
MOstly Americans.. We are Amerians..
Its like why are people fat..... Americans... we eat like cows.
2007-03-30 21:23:20 · answer #9 · answered by wii 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fear
2007-03-30 21:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by angelina_mcardle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋