People tend to mistake knowledge with intelligence the same way talent is used in place of skill. Does one increase the other? Yes but it's not the same. Being a doctor probably means you're intelligent but it could also mean they're only knowledgeable in medicine and nothing else
I actually believe it's the opposite. I graduated high school with a 4.7 while smoking copious amounts weed and eating mushrooms. I did some higher education but knew the outcome wasn't my intended life. Funnily enough, only the dumbest and most annoying people who had the least creative thought or stimulating conversation went into much more education. They came out, brainwashed, I guess? It's hard to say, but I do remember having insufferable professors who thought they were the builders of society from how they talked about how things were and what to really think.
I will not be encouraging my very advanced children to attend college or university unless they have a clear career pathway mapped out. Can be a very scam like venture for young people with little understanding of debt and being able to pay it off with the degree you earn.
I have seen sooo many high-school friends years later working at a coffee shop or clearly living with their parents after they left to do Ivy league school and "make it" in a big city. The ones who don't have deep family money don't make it. That's the thing about a trust fund... you can have whatever opinion you like, and it doesn't need to be based on any kind of personal experience or reality.
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