RE: This Is Just Sad....
May 22, 2016 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2016 at 11:03 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(May 21, 2016 at 11:08 pm)energizer bunny Wrote: Well yeah, if a person can use that knowledge to grow as a person and apply it in real life situations then absolutely. Though people use their intelligence differently. A person may not be good at geography but their only claim to knowledge is science and math and they use that knowledge to cure the sick. That is more useful than a person who is knowledgeable on many things but never applying it.
No argument there. Intelligence has many different uses. That's all the more reason to cultivate it as broadly as possible.
I do confess favoring the polymath over the specialist, though, in a conversation -- or in general thinking, for that matter. Breadth of knowledge doesn't guarantee depth of insight, but the more data points one has (from any and all disciplines), the more detailed a picture one might draw when connecting the dots.
Additionally, I regard geographic knowledge as a metric of a person's interest in foreign cultures -- fairly or unfairly, who knows? But how likely is a person to know much about a nation without being able to put it somewhere on a map?
