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ive often wondered the same thing .for example...say a brain surgeon was to show you how to do a specific surgery ,im sure when you,ve watched enough and with constant guidance for a few years you,d be able to do it.well i think so anyway.
i used to work for a lady *****.i was always doing odd jobs .ive striped sanded woodfilled huge stable doors .then undercoated and painted.
ive stripped windows down to the original wood ,sanded ,and put stainer on them .stuck putty in windows .did i have any knowledge of this before i took the job .no .nothing.so i think anything can be learned when you been taught .its the experiance that you need.xxx

Even though a certain level of intelligence is necessary for certain qualifications I do not think the examination process proves that level of intelligence. You could be the best student on the course but nerves take over when sitting the exam and their qualification would then not mirror their understanding, capability or ability to apply the knowledge gained from the course.

Some quaifications are impossible to get without a certain amount of intelligence.

Intelligence is as much about the application of knowledge gained, problem solving, the capacity for abstract thought, communication and reasoning as it is about learning.

A high IQ isn't aways an indication of common sense, though.

Gwynne

That depends on the person. A person with qualifications can be very intelligent but not necessarily. Just as a person with not much education can be very intelligent..... or not. Education is a powerful tool if used correctly and can open many doors.

Sue x

Even a professor isnt intelligent,only knowlegable in their chosen field.

the teacher repulsed me, she wasn't happy unless she was disecting something, i just happily wandered ignorently around the class room letting all the pets out the cages, as you can imagine i was not the teachers pet lol

That was horrible no wonder science wasn't your subject.

I agree everyone learns more through the experience of doing something.

No I'm uneducated but i can do and have done varied jobs and been in management, i think personal experience of certain things and situations is enough to start you off in some jobs and in some jobs you learn through that job, a friend who is a biology teacher gave me a exam paper i got a pass at 87% correct, science/ biology was one lesson i would not do because the teacher had a fetus in a jar on her shelf and would not remove it, can you imagine in this day that happening in a class room barbaric.

Personally I think not. I think they prove an ability to work under pressure and to sit exams but not to apply the knowledge gained from the course.

I say this because when I began to an accountancy course many many moons ago I decided initially to learn this goes in this column and that goes in that as I was told that each of these transactions were always in particular columns, they never vary. My friend on the otherhand wanted to know why right from day one. With hindsight, although I did learn the reasoning eventually, I in effect was learning it parrot fashion which helped me when going through the examination process.

When doing my driving test back in the seventies I was only asked one highway code question because I learned the highway code parrot fashion even down to page numbers so when asked the question I said in reply paragraph 2 page 34 I began repeating it verbatim. This does not make me a better driver or show a knowledge of the highway code just an ability to recite the highway code.

I do think that the gaining of knowledge is important and that not just in academic subjects. People with no qualifications can be more intelligent and inciteful that the most highly qualified. Also some academics lack basic common sense.