You can actually also learn to be less stupid in school and it would still be called “education.”
I know that some of my teachers occasionally tried to teach us how to think critically. How to solve problems. They made me write arguments. There were debate classes that I didn’t take. They taught some philosophy in my English classes. Math had word problems.
I’d like it if all that stuff was part of the official curriculum and they had a required critical thinking course or something. But it wasn’t nothing.
Are you suggesting that one’s stupidity is determined at birth and then their stupidity can never decrease? But even with a strange definition like that, I would argue that a good education plan would keep your brain from atrophying, and so the net result would be the same as if education decreased stupidity.
I would say that everybody starts out with a genetic baseline of stupidity that can never decrease, but it can increase due to environmental factors.
It’s not like there’s a hard and set rule, but everyone has some stupidity. Remember that stupidity is not ignorance. Stupidity by definition is “a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, or wit, an inability to learn. It may be innate, assumed or reactive.”
If you are cured of your stupidity, then either something has happened to you physically to increase your intelligence, like perchance you had a blocked artery in your brain that was freed, and therefore the new blood flow has unlocked increased mental faculty, or your stupidity was based in ignorance, which is not stupidity in and of itself despite being a stupid thing.
You can actually also learn to be less stupid in school and it would still be called “education.”
I know that some of my teachers occasionally tried to teach us how to think critically. How to solve problems. They made me write arguments. There were debate classes that I didn’t take. They taught some philosophy in my English classes. Math had word problems.
I’d like it if all that stuff was part of the official curriculum and they had a required critical thinking course or something. But it wasn’t nothing.
I would argue in those cases that you didn’t learn to be less stupid, you learned smarter things.
Your brain is still clocked at the same speed, you’re just performing more efficient processes.
Are you suggesting that one’s stupidity is determined at birth and then their stupidity can never decrease? But even with a strange definition like that, I would argue that a good education plan would keep your brain from atrophying, and so the net result would be the same as if education decreased stupidity.
I would say that everybody starts out with a genetic baseline of stupidity that can never decrease, but it can increase due to environmental factors.
It’s not like there’s a hard and set rule, but everyone has some stupidity. Remember that stupidity is not ignorance. Stupidity by definition is “a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, or wit, an inability to learn. It may be innate, assumed or reactive.”
If you are cured of your stupidity, then either something has happened to you physically to increase your intelligence, like perchance you had a blocked artery in your brain that was freed, and therefore the new blood flow has unlocked increased mental faculty, or your stupidity was based in ignorance, which is not stupidity in and of itself despite being a stupid thing.