“Everyone here is intelligent if not you would not become a doctorate student.”
As mentioned I am currently attending a two-week course as one of the requirements in being qualified for dissertation later on. For the past few days, I have been hearing this line mentioned by several instructors/course organizers repeatedly.
Are doctorate students, PhD holders or other prestigious professionals smarter? Or those without ones or going to be one are less competent?
Many of us have a general misconception thinking those with higher degrees are somewhat smarter, more intelligent, more capable, wiser…However, it actually doesn’t seem to be the case. Probably it just happens that the person with a higher degree has some luck to be born in a nation that education is a necessity? Or he/she has some financial support to make it through for the degree?
I have seen some highly educated people whose qualification was not reflected through their behavior (i.e. way of dealing with matters and people). On contrary, I’m sure you and I have met some amazingly smart people who apparently do not hold the piece of paper yet they are successful in various aspects of life.
Education is really just a form of training. It doesn’t measure one’s intelligence; nor can it indicate one’s success. I don’t deny that education is important for us. We do need to go through certain proper way of training to equip ourselves with some tools for practical reasons (i.e. jobs) or even contributing something (stuff acquired from the training) to the society. Yet it doesn’t mean that he/she is smart if someone is highly educated. The same goes for a PhD holder. You don’t have to be that smart to grant the degree. The degree does somehow carry some weight though. I do respect those with the degree because it is not that easy to go through the frustrations during those 4-5 years (some even did for more than 5 years!!). One would definitely not make it if lack determination.
...to be continued
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