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[ymf]

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost

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[velvetpage]

No, that's civilization and self-confidence. I don't agree with my national poet on this one.

[ymf]

I had no idea that he's Canadian. o_O Just took that off my mailing list. heh.

hmmm I would say that civilization stems from education, and that the latter encompasses more than mere literacy.

Now that you've said it, I'm beginning to think that the quote isn't completely fitting. I might agree with the quote on first part, but I agree with you that self-confidence is a different matter.

[velvetpage]

I know lots of people who are quite confident that their ideas are right - and quite wrong, nonetheless. Confidence is not an indicator for intelligence.

I looked it up, and Frost is American from New England. I was confusing him with Robert Service, who is very definitely Canadian. :)

[ymf]

Then that confidence is 70% egoism? o_O

I probably can't even name a single national poet... *sheepish*

[allogenes]

Actually education is the ability to listen to colloquia speakers droning on and on without losing your temper or falling asleep. :-)

[ymf]

did that come from your students? x=

[allogenes]

No, that comes from sitting through hundreds of colloquia myself. Like one today. On Bayesian methods in experimental designs usually handled by ANOVA-type methods. Whatever that was. :-O

[ymf]

Whatever that was.
erm, my sentiments exactly. d=