Papers on topics in areas such as science, politics, sociology, philosophy, and others are often reserved for higher education, graduate school or above, or by professors or above. While the expertise and experience given by spending years in college and gaining a title are noteworthy, why should they exclude those who do not have so many years dedicated to schooling but still carry valid views that can be expressed?
I believe that beginning college, high school, and even grade school students can produce excellent, thought provoking papers and essays that can be groundbreaking works in themselves. Instead, these are passed off as graded opinions that are never seen again. While the majority of these papers are unlearned, inexperienced, or unprofessional, surely there are a few who break ground and exceed the statements in professional papers and essays.
Can excellent papers produced below a "professional" level still be considered as important contributions to society? Or must people always believe that only someone with a higher level degree is worthy of having public opinion?
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Anonymous2006-01-19 16:11
Short answers. Yes and Yes. The former is just casually true. The latter is an opinion held by those with degrees and those that percieve these people as superior in some way.
I think this is the next shift in human intelligence. Just as we took knowledge back from religious figures, we shall do the same to so-called "professionals".
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Anonymous2006-01-19 19:05
It really has absolutely nothing to do with what they've learned.
What is important is that they have high grade legal certification which they must uphold. An undergraduate or highschool student has no reputation or quality control to keep at level. They can lie, not provide evidence, and not be held responsible.
But the best answer anyone could give you is to turn to the internet for publication. Hobbyist undergrad projects have received worldwide attention if they're publicized well enough on the internet. It's just a matter of being heard. Certification and status has little meaning on the web, it comes down to the content.
Those with reputations and professional legal diplomas can lie, not provide evidence, and not be held responsible as well. This is moot.
The rest of what you said is right. But I stand by what I said in >>2
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Anonymous2006-01-20 0:31
HI SO YOU'RE SAYING MY POSTS IN THIS FORUM ABOUT HOW PEDOPHILIA IS TOTALLY RAD AND SHOULD BE THOUGH OF AS COOL ARE AS COOL AS GEORGE W. BUSH'S OPINION!?!? AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool:: ::cool::
>>5 Well, through your sarcasm, you've highlighted the OP's point; even though you have no real qualification, you've managed to make us think. You've shown how you, a totally unrecognized and even asinine persona can contribute to high intellectual debate.
Of course, you were trying to show with your point that the opinions of the internet at large should be held only warily, because we have pedos and racists out there... But of course, they're in equal standing with the great thinkers out there, and of course, the occasional stupid kid with a good point.
So in effect you cancelled yourself out.
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Anonymous2006-01-21 9:55
Education takes up a lot of time and resources. It depends on whether it will be contructive and whether you deserve it or not.
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Anonymous2006-01-21 11:55
What about being published in a book? Would people be interested in "essays by highschoolers?"
Not always, but exceptions are so rare or non-existent that it's not worth shifting through tons of refuse to find them.
Education really does make a huge difference. The only people who don't think so are the ones that lack it.
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Anonymous2006-01-21 19:25
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I don't think so and I work in the aeronautics industry. (what a pretentious way to say maintenance, lol!) Of course I spend my breaks here so I guess I'm not that smart after all, onoes!
I keep'em in the air. I wish I had worked on the 747 that hit the trade centers so I could run off some Tshirts that said "Remember 9/11" with a picture of the planes hitting, then on the back it would have said "THIS GUY makes sure no matter where it's flying, that plane reaches its destination" with a large wrench underlaid below the message. ooo real life trolling.
The real importance of status lies the level of attention it is reasonable to spend on what somebody has to say. The quality of many things isn't apparent at first sight. In an unfiltered world where attention span is short, the focus will shift towards what can be immediatly understood - small mental steps instead of big ones - a form of lowest common denominator.
This is the case on the internet. Where it is not, I believe, it is not due to evolved social or technological structures, but due to a temporary effect in which the focus groups adopt a certain technology faster than others.
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Anonymous2006-02-11 10:18
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Unless you care, you will not bother learning something you find boring.*
fix'd
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Anonymous2006-02-20 17:16
WHAT THE FUCK DOES ANY OF THIS SHIT HAVE TO DO WITH EVANGELION?!!?
(If you don't get the joke then look it the hell up!)
Really, what's with the title... is this about sand nigras?
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Anonymous2006-03-16 23:13
HAY GUYS I just found something called academic research, it involves the "scholarly method" of looking up resources published in peer reviewed journals rather than using, say, a bunch of popular magazines and Amazon bestsellers instead. It kicks so much ass now that I've discovered this. My thesis will be on why emo kids need to cheer up. Wish me luck!