<p>I’ll contribute this anecdote as education from the school of experience…</p>
<p>At yesterday’s HS senior awards event, I clapped the loudest for the person who had perfect attendance for four yrs. I have known this person since early grade school, and she is less than avg in the numbers dept (gpa/act/rank), and I don’t think there was a college noted for her, but she more than compensates with her work ethic and doing as much as she can with what she has.</p>
<p>Since I have been caught up in the last few months with the college search and numbers/numbers/numbers/, I was going to the awards event with that in mind, looking for the most garish gpa, test score, class rank, most prestigious colleges, then I clapped the hardest for this person, making it clear to me that education is more than those numbers.</p>
<p>I still think you gotta know about the 2nd law of thermadynamics to consider yourself ‘educated’. :)</p>
<p>I emailed my friend and he reminded me that it was CP Snow, in his Two Cultures lectures, who said this bit about the importance of understanding entropy.</p>
<p>my friend said,
“It got into a big row between him and F.R. Leavis (interesting that they were both known by their intials) called the Two Cultures debate.”</p>
<p>[The</a> Two Cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures]The”>The Two Cultures - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[The</a> Two Cultures: C.P. Snow, Literature and Science"](<a href=“http://academics.vmi.edu/gen_ed/Two_Cultures.html]The”>http://academics.vmi.edu/gen_ed/Two_Cultures.html)</p>