Did you believe them?

Question

Given that more than 80% of the world's population never sees the inside of a post-secondary institute, what would be the reason to believe most parents. That would mean that most parents are uneducated.

Answer 1

Uneducated or not, most parents have experence and they want to protect their kids of going the same mistakes as they did!

Answer 2

Although knowledge is greatly desired, one can state that scholarly knowledge or cardinal knowledge is not always the best and smartest. Uneducated people(as you say) have an ability to seek the best, do the best out of life experiences, with common sense ( which most edcuated people do not have), knowledge and willingness to go beyond the chapters in a book. This is knowledge that cannot be bought at a university.

I know some extremely appearing intelligent people and they have no concept of the world other than their education. Which is usually and extremely narrow view of a discipline.

Answer 3

do you believe that we are born with an innate sense of good, evil, right and wrong? College teaches things they later find are wrong, but medieval herb woman knew tons of things that they are just discovering as cures nowadays... They were someones parents who were never in an institution, and how many people go to school and come out no longer using freethinking they become automations of the institution. Why is that? Did they just have bad teachers or would they have been that way anyways? Also to answer, No I think many parents are stupidity incarnate, but many are smarter than so many college graduates

Answer 4

A parent can have a college degree, but still have poor parenting skills. Conversely, a high school graduate can have good parenting skills. You don't need to go to college to educate yourself. If you enjoy reading, you can learn about anything under the sun and possibly apply it in your daily life, such as in the raising of children. Then again, you can read a variety of books on child development, and have a temperament that isn't nurturing, maternal, or paternal, and be a lousy parent. There is so much that goes into being a good parent that you don't learn about in school.

Answer 5

Because good parenting is not necessarily something you learn from within the walls of a post-secondary institute. Some of the world's GREATEST mothers have been our grandmothers who barely had a 2nd grade education!

Answer 6

You don't believe all the people all the time.
You believe something only when you are convinced that its a truth no matter it is told by a person either educated or uneducated.

An uneducated person may tell you the truth and an educated may not. Thus to believe or not depends upon your knowledge and not upon the knowledge of the the person who told it to you.

Answer 7

As others have correctly stated, you are confusing secondary education with the skills needed to be a good parent. They are distinct and separate skill sets.

"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
— Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The only source of knowledge is experience.
—Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
—Confucius

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
— Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.
— Will Rogers

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1

The beginning of wisdom lies in knowing what one does not know.
— Anonymous

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
— Plato, Dialogues, Apology

He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
— Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

Know thyself.
— Plato

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
— Michel Montaigne (Essayist, 1533-1592)

“I wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. . . It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I'm looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling. I think what needs to be done is that we need to be trained to look for quality inside each of us, instead of looking towards society to decide what is good in our lives and what is not. Until this happens, we shall never know happiness.
— Robert Pirsig (Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, p. 5.)

And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good---
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
— Robert Pirsig, Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance)

Answer 8

Yeah...how about that 80%. I think I enjoy being the small percentage who actually has gone to school beyond high school, beyond undergrad school. In fact, grad school was way more cool than undergrad school. My mom thinks I think too much now. Um, yeah, maybe because I went to grad school?

You have to do your own thing. My oldest boy is a photographer and studying photography at a nice jr. college. He is in his 4th year of studies. He couldn't decide on his major and he's like a renaissance man, so he is good at everything but master at, well, photography right now. He likes this more than anything he has ever done and he's good, so I am pushing this area even though his grandparents want him to go into law or medicine.

Be happy. That's what counts. And, be able to support yourself in whatever you want to do in life.

Answer 9

Education begins in the cradle and ends in the grave.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned...Mark Twain.


Good luck!

Answer 10

What a nonsense! Parents do not teach you that what you can learn in the institutes, they teach you that what cannot be learned there. They teach you how to live, they teach knowledge of life.