Girl what is that supposed to mean??
Exactly what i said. He’s too eloquent for a middle school drop out
My mom dropped out of school at 15, but she was a legit genius. Like could have joined Mensa. She read a 1500 page book in less than a week, only causally reading 30min-1hr after she got off work. She got her ged on her own without taking any classes. Education is great but doesn’t mean you aren’t clever or smart. In fact a lot of ppl who struggle in school are actually highly intelligent. Bc they’re so smart they tend to get bored easily. Like Einstein dropped out of school & he’s considered by modern physicists to be 2nd only to Newton .
You should not take what they say out of context. It is not about your mom or Newton.
In average, a middle school drop-out is not that eloquent, especially when they did not actively try to compensate out of their missed education. The MC was clearly not passing his days reading or doing some physics. I double it down by adding that: your AVERAGE middle schooler (not even drop-out) ain't that bright.
Furthermore, it is a general statement. It is "general". The MC is indeed way clever than YOUR AVERAGE middle school drop out. It is a relatively fair assessment.
Dropping out earlier usually means less exposure to formal language and practice in writing/speaking. The average middle school dropout scores lower on standardized IQ— IQ tests are very tricky, because I realized myself that some systems based their "teaching" on IQ testing, meaning, the "course" itself prepares you to excel IQ tests. As such, the IQ test itself just become "all dejà-vu", "already know" patterns. IQ scores can reflect familiarity with the test's logic rather than raw cognitive capacity. "Practice makes better".
As you said, education does not mean more clever or smarter. However, the correlation is undeniable. Smart drop-outs are the irregularities, not the norm.
I’m sorry but you sound elitist. I know plenty of ppl better educated than myself who are ignorant as fck & lack the ability to think critically. I’ve also known ppl less educated than myself who wiped the floor with me intellectually. The comment made was that a middle school drop out couldn’t be that clever but you’ve extrapolated that comment to mean something else.
I’ll also add that I think education is great, but I also think a formal education often don’t give ppl much more than the ability to memorize facts & complicated formulas, that they then forget within a few years of graduating bc they don’t use them. Not all educations are the same & often historical textbooks are riddled with propaganda & missing chapters of history bc it reflects negatively on the country. So you learned all these historical dates but weren’t taught critical history. How is that useful? In Japan that means they aren’t taught things like the atrocities Japan committed in the Japanese/Korean War. In Turkey that means not being taught the truth of the Armenian genocide. In America that’s meant we weren’t taught the full history of the genocide of the indigenous ppls & incidents like the Tulsa massacre. There are so many examples I can’t list them all. Again I think education is great but the conflation that lack of edu means lack of cleverness is wild. In truth, I think a lot of ppl are “dumb”, as in they don’t think critically, or question what they’ve been taught; but youre just as likely to see that stupidity in multiple educational levels bc that stupidity comes from an inability to look critically at systems bc of things like blind patriotism or even bigotry.
Sigh. OP, I know you meant no ill intentions. Some people just want to be butt hurt. You do you.
You know how silly it sounds criticizing the formal education system in a pirated yaoi comment section? Chill out bro
Mc was too clever for a middle school drop out