Like many other “professionals,” medical “professionals” suffer from a general lack of education because they cannot comprehend any other way of thinking besides what they were taught in medical school. As I always say, any form of education predominantly teaches you how to think and believe the way your professors think and believe; never how to think critically, objectively, logically, rationally, or even for yourself.
"Experts" are not immune from poor judgment and faulty reasoning. People who are academically accomplished are the most susceptible to media brainwashing and propaganda. They believe that academic achievement removes them from susceptibility, but historically the opposite is true. They ignorantly believe that academia can do no wrong. Academia says it, they believe it, that’s all there is to it!
Based on about five dozen quotes I have read, I believe that professor Richard Feynman was a very bright man. Several of his quotes regarding education would likely offend the so-called “educated.” He basically calls the “educated” dangerous, which they are. Here are a few of his quotes (which confirmed my own thoughts and observations):
“Modern education:
Creating people who are smart enough to accurately repeat what they are told and follow the orders.
And dumb enough to think this makes them smarter than everyone else.”“The real problem with the education system is that it tests memorization skills, not learning or intelligence.
The two major aspects that lack in modern education systems are education and system.”“The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.”“When your ‘education’ limits your imagination it’s called indoctrination. Those who cannot think for themselves are truly lost.
Education should be a rewarding experience which allows you to think, imagine, question, doubt and solve problems.”“Education isn’t about the ability to remember and repeat, in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
It is the ability to learn from experience, to think, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.”
“You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.”“The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure.
The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question.”“Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot.”
“When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. It’s pain only for others.
It’s the same thing when you are stupid.”“Be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.”
Credentials do not amount to a hill of beans. Anyone with half a brain and a shred of intelligence can retain information and parrot it back on tests and exams in order to get the grades, the GPA, the degrees, and titles. You can have the entire alphabet before and after your name and it literally means nothing; it does not mean you are intelligent in the least, that you understand anything you learned, or that you have a clue what you are talking about. The real test of intelligence is whether you can question any of what you were taught to believe and expose it as either antiquated (old) or false, or if you can create a better way of accomplishing it.
A large portion of things we have been taught are patently false, from Big Bang to Evolution to Pangea to modern church practice to medical/pharmaceutical chicanery. Are you going to remain an ignorant fool who goes along to get along, or are you going to stand up and be a beacon of light exposing the great lies with the truth? “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). Will you take the red pill, or the blue pill? “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: The sun, the moon, and the truth.” —Confucius
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
“[God’s] truth [is] not to [certain individual’s] taste. We all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes.” —Matthew Henry
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the [whole] world.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Stand up for [truth] even if you’re standing alone.” ―Suzy Kassem
“Stand up for [truth] regardless of who is committing the [lie].” ―Suzy Kassem
“Always stand up for truth regardless of who steps on it.” ―Suzy Kassem
“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.” —Aristotle
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” —Booker T. Washington
“Have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?” —Galatians 4:16
“Study . . . rightly dividing the word of truth.” —2 Timothy 2:15
Know the truth. Speak the truth. Stand for the truth.