You actually gave a pretty good response, however, it doesn't justify the statement made that all or 99.9% of high schoolers are dumb/stupid. Obviously AP exams shouldn't be an indicator of a person's intelligence level, but stupid/dumb people wouldn't waste their time taking said exams. They also wouldn't waste their time trying to get into good schools or developing study habits. Also, if your educated, how can you be dumb and stupid at the same time? That literally contradicts itself. Also, why hasn't anyone tried to fix this? If the general consensus is that all High Schoolers are dumb and stupid, shouldn't we be trying to do something about this? Should we forget about going to high school and just have everyone enter the workforce since that somehow makes you less dumb and stupid? So if I go to Harvard, i'm dumb and stupid, but the minute I take a job at McDonalds I become less stupid? Do I have a chance of becoming the next Steve Jobs If I forgo college?
He's just saying that you still have a lot to learn and you won't learn it in a classroom but in life experience. We all thought we knew it all when we were young.
Must respectfully disagree on some points. Comments in red. I know this has nothing to do with Rockets though, so we should seriously stop haha.
LOL You guys are crazy. Arguing about the intelligence of a kid graduating from high school? way to **** on the thread? Can we get back to looking up to the stars and seeing them align because some stripper named Destiny said so?
99% of HS aren't "dumb" as much as they lack experience, and I mean life experience. Looking back at my HS self, I was extremely confident then in my own abilities, but the current me still finds the past-me at times laughable and certainly naive. I am confident that my future-self will think back to the me-now and have similar thoughts. You do touch on some other points that, if you'd like to discuss privately, I would be more than interested in delving deeper into, such as America's current over-saturation in higher education, how college degrees are now essentially pre-requisites for jobs that absolutely do NOT require 4 yr college degrees (and where vocational schools are better suited), societal and economic costs for such "over-education" and bar-raising, etc. In any event, we've really gone off the mark. The reason everyone piled on you originally was because you were kinda a dick in your original post. That's all. Nothing to do with intelligence then, just kinda jerkish. PS - given the subject and context of all these posts, please at least use the correct "you're" vs "your".
Fair enough. I will acknowledge that what I said wasn't worded very well and was jerkish, but I just felt as if thread itself wasn't very necessary and could have been posted in the game 6 thread for discussion. Thinking about it now, I guess this type of thread is better than some of the ones that popped up after the losses.
When I say dumb, I mean that they just don't much about anything, yet often think they know everything. I remember how I was in HS and compared to where I am now, I was incredibly stupid despite having all the confidence in the world. We become smarter as we accumulate experiences, both in our field of expertise and in life in general. There is a reason why one says that wisdom comes with age. That along with development of technological convenience, causes a lot of kids in HS and before to essentially skip over the basics and fundamental aspects of things and they focus purely on the memorization or short term understanding of topics to get good grades. Schools teach us knowledge that the educational systems believe we should learn. A lot things that we are "required" to learn in schools and colleges actually are completely useless towards your future jobs and way of life. For example, I had to take some mandatory science classes in college that neither helps me at my job or my daily routine in life. Yet, I was forced to take those classes for credits simply to graduate from my university. You will find later in life that a lot of people actually have a pretty low opinion about current US educational levels in general and it is common knowledge that the younger educational level in the US is not considered. Even with upper age education, many other countries that are much poorer have actually caught up or exceeded us. In fact, teacher salaries are actually lower in the US when compared in other countries and during times of financial trouble, the public educational system is one of the first to suffer cutbacks. There are a lot of ways to find education, especially for skill specific education. High school is important, but hardly the only available path that provides a viable future. I am not suggesting that dropping out of school correlates with getting smart and rich, just that the value of experience and connection far trumps what you believe to be the values of school. That said, high school is still very useful as a gateway to higher level education. This is especially beneficial if you lack proper experience or connections. Anyone and everyone has a chance of being someone great. It has nothing to do with your level of education, but rather your willpower, character, vision, experiences, and connections. That is what defines us and our future paths, not which school you went to. Oh, I completely agree with you. I was just using that as a counter point to his position in this argument.
The Rangers won the stanley cup in 93/94...I remember purchasing a championship shirt at a discount the same day I went to get my Rockets championship gear.
