| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Graht) |
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| Subject: | Intelligence and Education |
| Date: | Thu May 10 10:05:01 2001 |
>According to Graht, on Wed, 09 May 2001 the word on the street was...
>
> > An intelligent character can represent a poor education by spending those
> > free knowledge points on knowledge skills that one would learn outside the
> > education system, say gang sign, area knowledge of their home
> street/block,
> > trivid shows from 2045 to 2055, etc. By virtue of having a high
> > intelligence they are more perceptive and aware of their surroundings and
> > will file that information away, but high intelligence doesn't have to
> mean
> > well educated.
>
>I don't agree. This is saying that education is only what you learn in
>school, or some other formal setting, and though that may be true if you
>look at the meaning of the word, IMHO "well-educated" in a game system
>doesn't necessarily mean having gone to school (and paid attention :)
>Rather, I see it as meaning that you have a wide, firm knowledge base,
>regardless of how you got it. In SR, this is inevitably linked to your
>Intelligence -- with a low Intelligence, you'll never be well-educated in
>this sense.
Well, yes, if you put it that way your are correct :) When I hear educated
I think school taught, but it could just as easily apply to life taught.
Given that, how would you justify the Uneducated flaw with someone who is
intelligent? Maybe they were brought up in sterile environment where they
were not school educated and just about every need was taken care of. Or
maybe they are a stubborn person who refuses to learn from mistakes.
To Life,
-Graht
ShadowRN Gridsec, Nice Guy Division
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