Are you a learned man/woman?

Answer 1

Above average, I think. My BA is from the University of Michigan, class of 1974. I was a philosophy major specializing in ethics at a time when William Brandt was chairman of the department. He wrote one of the standard texts on ethics. We also had professors Frankena, Stevenson and Mavrodes, all giants in their field, and I was something of a favorite of theirs.

I have also been privileged to know some other great minds, a few of them quite intimately. My most intense love affair in college was with a man who had been on the team that wrote FORTRAN for IBM back in the 1950s. Another close friend was an astronomy instructor who explained a lot of cosmology and physics to me. Another very close friend was the designer of Xanadu, the longest-running vaporware on record. (There's more to that than anyone who does not know old-time hackers can appreciate.)

My husband was the smartest man I ever knew, and my best friend now is number two on Yahoo! Answers' leaderboard, having been number one until a polls & surveys afficianado aced him out by sheer quantity over quality.

I have also had a lifelong love affair with books as well as with brilliant men, and occasionally brilliant women (Where have you gone, Stella?). Now that I have a DVD player, I am also developing a love affair with the best of our film history.

Yes, I think I am learned above those who mostly watch TV and read People Magazine.

Answer 2

I can't answer. U have to ask others who know me. I'm an engineer by profession and a successful person. But I can't call myself a learned person. I'm a well qualified person. That's all. To call myself a learned person will amount to denigarde people of my rank and class. Sorry, I'm not a learned man if I've to answer it.

Answer 3

It might just be true that there are more things to learn from life than you can get from an education
To me, real learned people would be able to take the information they have gathered (and also be able to tell which bits of information are most useful to them) and use this to create their own way of looking at things.
Sadly, this is something that might seem to be pretty devoid in our society, although it doesn't seem to make anyones ego any smaller.

Answer 4

I learn my lessons in life has a man.

Answer 5

Reasonably learned, I would say.

Answer 6

I have learned a lot in my life.. but it depends on what you mean learned!

Answer 7

I went to night school for sooo long, I would hope I learned something.

Answer 8

Self taught

Answer 9

Yes, and I continue to educate myself with the books I collect and documentaries I watch.

Answer 10

After 68 years i am a wise old fart