<p>Do schools need to educate more in introspective thinking and philosophy, or is there already enough wisdom in our society?</p>
<p>Wisdom is best gained from experience.</p>
<p>yeah, but don’t you think wisdom can be guided in certain ways?
so, are all 40 year old men/women mature/wise compared to 20 year olds?</p>
<p>i think the degree of introspective thinking a person does plays a big roll, along with experience itself.</p>
<p>Society nowadays is too robotic. Everyone pretty much follows a few paths that society has laid out for them. It’d be nice if people learned to question what they’re learning, and question what they’re doing.</p>
<p>thanks username, i agree with you there that things are too robotic.
and you also mentioned that it’s society “nowadays”, but was it any different in the past?</p>
<p>Was it any different in the past? </p>
<p>Good question. I wasn’t here in the past, so I never really thought about it. Now that I think about it though, it probably wasn’t much different. </p>
<p>But then again, take college applications for example. Just look at CC and all the people who try to find tips and tricks that will get them into college. There are still few people who follow “don’t just do stuff for colleges, but do what you love”, but they are starting to dissappear. I predict that in a few years, it probably wouldn’t be very possible to get in a top tier school without significant preparation purely for colleges.</p>
<p>So yeah, I think that it probably was robotic before, but with the advance in technology and communication nowadays, more people are becoming aware, and less people are doing what they love. So yes, society was always robotic, but it’s becoming moreso.</p>
<p>“Society nowadays is too robotic. Everyone pretty much follows a few paths that society has laid out for them. It’d be nice if people learned to question what they’re learning, and question what they’re doing.”</p>
<p>Not only that, but you have remarkably similar thoughts and thought patterns every day. In my experience, the brightest people I know are not only quick minded, they’re able to think in new ways. </p>
<p>I’ve read that Steve Jobs (Apple founder and current CEO) once reconsidered the practice of testing new products on focus groups. The apparent culprit was the first generation iPod. The group hated the thing and Jobs just knew that they were wrong. He knew that testing the market had to be done in a new way. Microsoft would’ve cancelled the product right there.</p>
<p>Not everything that is accepted as time-tested, in business or otherwise, lasts. Often a maverick thinker will come along, be called crazy, and reinvent business or art or physics or whatever.</p>