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| "Book of Wisdom" (1924) Nicholas Roerich |
Generally speaking, do you think society today exalts logic, intellect, and rationality and the kind of knowing valued in schools more than it should?
Or do you think society today puts too much emphasis on intuition and the kind of knowing that is rooted in personal experience?
Do you think it is dangerous to characterize logic, intellect and rationality as the domain of men and intuition as the domain of women?
I believe that more value should be placed on intuition than society currently places on it. While logic is also very important, intuition is so important to surviving in the real world. Everyone should have some of both in order to really succeed in life. A lot is placed on being book smart. If you aren't making straight A's in school, people tend to look at you as though you're stupid and will never do anything with your life. Logic and intuition are both needed to make it in the world whether you are a man or a woman.
ReplyDeleteI believe today’s society exalts logic, intellect, and “school knowledge” more than intuition and personal experience, especially due to scientific research performed over the last couple of centuries. More effort is devoted to teaching children logical, rational thinking rather than teaching them to rely on intuition and experience. This is good and bad for a few reasons. First, while intuition and personal experience can be useful, it can be dangerous to rely just on these things alone, especially when they lead a person to make a risky or bad decision. There are many decisions that should be made with logic. On the other hand, logic and “school knowledge” cannot always help a person make the best decisions. Sometimes intuition and personal experience are more reliable and beneficial. I would say that characterizing intellect and logic as the domain of men and intuition as the domain of women can be dangerous when it leads to assumptions that only men rely on logic and intellect and only women rely on intuition. We all need both logic and intuition to be well-rounded, productive people.
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Society is convinced that knowing everything from school is the only thing that will get you anywhere in life. Straight A students are seen as amazing and lifted on a pedestal that, sometimes, isn’t what they deserve. Sometimes, it’s better to use intuition than what you learned in school, especially if it’s something that you wouldn’t have learned in a classroom. I believe that the way that society has portrayed the logic, intellect, and rationality as being something men possess is wrong. As a woman myself, I know that I can think logically and intellectually to get myself out of a situation that requires you to be rational. There are men I know that can’t do that, but they’re amazing at following their intuition. I think that all of those traits are interchangeable, and it depends on how the person thinks that shows which they use more, not their gender.
ReplyDeleteAs we have advanced socially, our culture and schools have placed an increased emphasis on book-smart intellect rather than common sense intuition. This is simply due to practicality. Objective metrics for logic and memorization exist and are easily measurable, while intuition and personal experience are extremely difficult to gauge and score. It is imperative that schools remain sources of logic and intellect, but it must be paired with an increased focus on intuition. One without the other is analogous to a gun without ammo: unable to properly function.
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