On Smartness
May. 5th, 2005 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythI've never understood why being smart's often considered to be a bad thing. Like the phrase "Too smart for your own good." I hate that phrase. It's not true. It's not being too smart that gets you, it's thinking you're smarter than everybody else, and getting sloppy and overlooking things. It's pride, not smartness that does that.
Is it jealousy? Fear? Feeling that somebody's geting "above themselves"? It's especially ironic when you get teachers or school administrators who ask you things like "are you getting smart with me?" What, you're supposed to say no, I'm not being smart, when you're at school? It doesn't make any sense.
And there's many kinds of smart, not just one. Most people have different levels of each kind. But none of it I can see being bad.
People are strange.
Tags: Mindscribbles, Language
Is it jealousy? Fear? Feeling that somebody's geting "above themselves"? It's especially ironic when you get teachers or school administrators who ask you things like "are you getting smart with me?" What, you're supposed to say no, I'm not being smart, when you're at school? It doesn't make any sense.
And there's many kinds of smart, not just one. Most people have different levels of each kind. But none of it I can see being bad.
People are strange.
Tags: Mindscribbles, Language
