The Importance Of Education With Common Sense And Education

Growing up under the myth that “If you do not go to school you will not learn anything,” was the logic behind getting an education when I was a child. However, what should have been our focus perspective, was the quote by Ingersoll, n.d.), “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” That is to say, that there are many people who have an elite education, but have not applied that education to their life. Moreover, they have failed to employ common sense in understanding the necessities of learning the fundamentals of their education. As a result, they are ignorant to the simplicity behind life from which to succeed, but have assumed that their Ivy League education has made them elite and well educated. Nevertheless, I am in partial disagreement with this way of thinking, and believe common sense and education should work hand in hand, because education without common sense is worthless.

Throughout life, because of illusory superiority, I was accustomed to people who had the audacity to boast about how well educated they were, however were unable to prepare a dish as simple as rice. Albeit, I was skeptical, I was also inquisitive as to exactly what their rationalization of being well

& O’Shea, A., 2013), is a framework of importance where using sound judgment is significant to understanding the world. In addition, it is being able to rationalize a situation without much forethought or rumination. It is the capacity to utilize practical insight in solving problems or making decisions in everyday life. Furthermore, common sense is intuitive and shared by the rich, the poor, the well educated, and the uninformed alike. Nonetheless, the uninformed as well as the well educated can be ignorant when it comes to common sense however it is the well educated that are sometimes too smart to realize their need to use common sense in certain everyday