Intelligence and education and experience are all different

Our present American culture seems to value advanced education as a defining value of whom to hire. Suppose this is a case of reinforcing one’s case, as in those in charge educated their kids to be hired by those like them. Nothing wrong with this, except, the executive and congress are going down the tubes. The advice, one may say leadership, offered by our best and brightest to their leaders, seems to lack intelligence and certainly experience.

What a way to ruin a country, especially a super-power. Of course, why did our political leaders even hire them? Did the parents involvement count? Was it just the education degree? Was it the Ivy League pedigree? This part is especially disturbing to the modern standards of rigor, vice the inherited history of the Ivy League. At one time Notre Dame had a better reputation for academic rigor, and rewards. One can only the infer the Kennedy infatuation with this academic group with the results in Vietnam. Or one can still see some kind of infatuation with the Ivy League and its political power with the black balling of the president’s nomination to the supreme court because she was not Ivy League. As one who knows a person with a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Georgia Tech, and then who gained a Master of Business Degree from Harvard, she said the latter degree was not very challenging compared to the rigor of her engineering degree. Later she bailed out of Mobil Oil, and the name brand is out of business. The real world is really tough!

Most Americans know the difference between intelligence and education and experience.

What is so new to our American experience is the politics of personal destruction as a political technique. Add in the apparently poor values of hiring based on education and pedigree vice intelligence and experience, and no wonder America looks embarrassing to much of the world.