Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Knowledge, ability to learn and Intelligence
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:52:46 -0400
 
> Therefore your lawyer will need much less time to acquire the
> skills of your
> postman, than it took your presumably low-IQ postman to acquire them.
>
> I agree that intelligence is the ability to learn.  I would
> however suggest
> that your error is to presume that Lawyers have more intelligence
> or ability
> to learn than plumbers or postmen.

Never discount class and economics:

A brilliant son of a postman may, sadly, end up a postman. A stupid son of a
lawyer may, sadly, end up a lawyer.


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