Is education and intelligence two separate things?

This is a strange one. I have had this argument before. To me, people come up from the ground as they learn. They reach the same point as what I would call normal, just like the rest of us. Here is my argument. In my eyes, they keep learning until they are well above normal people. Unfortunately, it's as if they take the ground with them leaving common sense behind. They forget all the rational common sense things that are important, the things the rest of us remember. Do you remember Sinclair? A genius who brought out the Spectrum computer, pocket tv and a lot of other inventions?

He brought out the Sinclair C5 little car. He was a brain box and the car did as he said. It could travel for miles for a penny or two. What he didn't have the sense to foresee was this. No Businessman would be seen dead in this and neither would any young guy. He would want to impress the girls, not be a laughing stock. The idea lost him millions because he used genius without common sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5N937V8ZOw

There were a group of these genius people standing near me about a year ago. They were discussing directions. Not one of them was dressed to impress. One was a young girl about 24. Although she had a pretty face, she had no makeup and was dressed in a commonsense way to keep warm as you would expect from a genius. Her hair was simply parted in the middle and slightly shorter than shoulder length.

She just looked like a plain jane, no fashion, just common sense. The worst part, even though her face was pretty, she had like a pea size mole on her cheek and there were three or four near an inch long hairs growing out of it. Any normal intelligence person would never have been seen dead like that. She could probably tell you how far away Mars was and to the inch yet was too thick to groom her face. Yuk.

Not all educated people are intelligent.

Not all intelligent people are educated.

BUT...intelligent people are more likely to yearn for an education. People want to use their brains and intelligent people want to expand theirs and learn.

NOTE: An education does not necessarily mean a traditional 4-year degree.

My dad was raised in the depression when many kids had to leave school to work to help their families. He never finished high school, but between his "street smarts" and self help he was one of the most intelligent people I have ever known. In college and after, in the work force, I have met some of the most stupid college grads imaginable. I look at some of the morons out there who have appeared (especially this election time) and see poster children for birth control who have college educations.

Yes. The intelligent can be ignorant and the educated can be slow.

Studies of child vendors doing math in their heads that school children cannot do with paper and pencil may be more informative that street smarts.

useless information makes one's brain a garbage dump. if that useless information is false (lies), then it's even worse.