Genius: The Modern View

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Just as long as you don't feel like hiking on a FIRE HYDRANT...



P.S. Ervin Shroedinger was a High School teacher and he first expressed the concept of particle energy and position "DUALISM" mathematically.

It is never who you are, it is always what you can do that makes a difference.

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Rudolf Carnap, the philosopher, was also a high school teacher, but that was back in the days when only the rich few went to college, and most people didn't graduate from high school. Back then, high school meant what college means today. Less than 20% ever graduated from high school. In 1908, 90% of US doctors were not college graduates! They went to "medical schools" for about a year, and many of these were exposed as sub-standard. So Schroedinger and Carnap were not so humble as it may seem.

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Rudolf Carnap, the philosopher, was also a high school teacher, but that was back in the days when only the rich few went to college, and most people didn't graduate from high school. Back then, high school meant what college means today. Less than 20% ever graduated from high school. In 1908, 90% of US doctors were not college graduates! They went to "medical schools" for about a year, and many of these were exposed as sub-standard. So Schroedinger and Carnap were not so humble as it may seem.

Colleges were around in those days. It was just that College and High School worked from different philosophies.

High School was seen as vocational and Colleges were seen as liberal arts. Of course, in those days you could teach up to 8th grade with an 8th grade education. In Europe education operated under a much different philosophy than it did in America.

Furthermore, it was actually believed that Science could cure all of the world's woes.

Anybody who thinks that today would certainly be considered pretty ignorant.