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What level of education should a president /head of state have?


  • likewhatitis100
    Apr 9 2:06 PM
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    A President of a country should have a reasoning that has less deficit.


    Knowledge is hierarchical. What is true of knowledge is also true of reasoning because knowledge at each level of the knowledge hierarchy develops reasoning of the same level to it. Thus, the higher you go the knowledge hierarchy the more the reasoning is expanded. Whereas knowledge base can be expanded, it is going up the hierarchy that expands both knowledge and reasoning.

    One's reasoning can not be above one's knowledge level. Education is Knowledge. So, one's reasoning can not be above one's education level because education develops reasoning equivalent to its level.

    It is a fact that elementary education has more deficit than university level education.

    So, a President of a country should have university level education, since reasoning and education at this level have less deficit.
  • Is leadership an inborn trait?

    Is leadership an inborn trait?



    Knowledge precedes talking.

    A child is born with the ability to talk. The ability to talk enables the child to develop talking. Knowledge should be acquired first so that talking will be achieved.
    Without knowledge talking will never be realized. Because there will be nothing to talk about.

    So, talking is always about knowledge. So, knowledge has precedence over talking.

    Deaf people are considered dumb because talking depends on hearing. Hearing lets in knowledge. Knowledge will make talking possible.
    So, although some deaf people have the ability to talk, since, they don't have hearing ability, which lets in knowledge, they can't talk.

    This shows that knowledge causes talking and talking does not cause knowledge. Thus knowledge has a higher precedence than talking. Knowledge is a stand alone.

    Knowledge is hierarchical

    Whereas knowledge is hierarchical,reasoning is a variable that develops as the knowledge hierarchy goes up. It increases as the knowledge base widens and as the knowledge hierarchy goes up.So, what expands reasoning is going up knowledge hierarchy and not just widening knowledge base.

    Leaders are made

    People are not born leaders.Leaders are made. Knowledge and pedagogic are acquired and they make a person a leader.So, expanding reasoning plus pedagogic skills makes a person have a potential to be a leader of many. A leader must be knowledgeable in many ways.

    A person can not be a leader on the basis of their charisma

    Whereas charisma is an inborn trait,a person can not be a leader on the basis of their charisma.A person can only be a leader on the basis of knowledge and pedagogic.
    Knowledge is a variable that increases with time.So, without knowledge charisma is meaningless.

    It is knowledge that displays charisma

    It is knowledge that displays charisma and charisma describes the depth of knowledge.Because without knowledge there will be nothing to talk about and the inborn charismatic trait will not be realized.Knowledge precedes talking. Knowledge should be acquired first so that talking will be achieved.Without knowledge talking will never be realized. Because there will be nothing to talk about.

    Elementary Education has more deficit.University level education has less deficit.
    What is true of education acquired is also true of the reasoning, which the education acquired evaluates to.Higher education evaluates to higher reasoning and less education evaluates to less reasoning, because education develops reasoning.The less the deficit in education the more the reasoning is expanded, which implies good reasoning and less deficit in reasoning.Thus the more the deficit in education, the more the deficit in reasoning.

    So, a leader must have reasoning expandable to university level education, since reasoning at this level of education has less deficit.


    So, leadership is not an inborn trait. Leaders are made.Expanding reasoning plus pedagogic skills makes a person have a potential to be a leader of many.

  • Weydon
    April 9

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    Eh

    Generally speaking, in today's age if someone is unable to complete college they're probably not going to make a good president. But the opposite is not by any means true. There are thousands of college graduates that may even have some leadership skills, but are not by any means qualified to be president. Also there probably are some smart, compassionate, ambitious people with good leadership skills that never completed college but actually would make a good president--they problem is they'd have a tough time being taken seriously.
    • ANY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE MEETS THE MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENT OF A PRESIDENT.

      "There are thousands of college graduates that may even have some leadership skills, but are not by any means qualified to be president."

      The question is what level of education should the president have.

      It is a fact that education develops reasoning equivalent to its level.It is also a fact that elementary education has more deficit than university education.Since the office of a president is the highest in the land,a president's reasoning should have less deficit. University education and reasoning level has less deficit.So,thats the level of education that meets the minimum education requirement of a president.

      So any university graduate meets the minimum education requirement of a president regardless of whether they may not make a good president.


  • Weydon
    April 10

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    "
    So any university graduate meets the minimum education requirement of a president regardless of whether they may not make a good president."

    That seems contradictory in logic.

  • What is contradicting in logic?

  • Weydon
    April 12

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    That the ability to be a good president is not the minimum education requirement to be a good president--just that they have to at least have a college degree first. It really shouldn't matter, the ability to be a good president should be the only consideration. Intelligence is not limited to certificates, and "deficits" are not necessarily filled in because of more schooling. The only real deficit no college puts on someone's run for office is that poor image it presents.
  • "It really shouldn't matter, the ability to be a good president should be the only consideration."

    Does reasoning constitute ability?
    What constitute ability?
  • Is the ability to be good president independent of reasoning?

  • Weydon
    April 13

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    Does college constitute ability?
  • no
  • The ability to be good president is determined by reasoning.

  • Weydon
    April 14

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    Which can be had without going to college.
  • President must have knowledge that has been tried and tested.

    If there is no knowledge there is no reasoning.
    Knowledge develops reasoning.Education is knowledge.
    College offers formal education.

    Formal education system is structured and has a very reliable way of testing and evaluation that has been proved.However, some can get their education informally but they should be tested to see what level their education they have acquired evaluate to.
    President must have knowledge that has been tried and tested.

  • Weydon
    April 16

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    I don't see college as proof of being a very knowledgeable person. Many colleges and degrees, while challenging, are not something you need to be highly intelligent and a keen diplomat for.
  • Any degree constitute knowledge at college level.The degree knowledge enables a person to solve problems at that level.Solving problems needs reasoning.Thus, the degree knowledge develops the reasoning.

  • bob2314
    April 17

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    education is what you make of it.

    Abraham Lincoln- Abraham Lincoln's formal education consisted of about 18 months of schooling, but he was largely self-educated and an avid reader.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Early_life

    George Washington- George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 the first son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington, on the family's Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was educated in the home by his father and older brother
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#Early_life

    Andrew Jackson- He received a sporadic education in the local "old-field" school. During the American Revolutionary War.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#Early_life_and_career

    Zachary Taylor- Taylor grew up on a plantation. He was known as "Little Zack" and was educated by private tutors.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor#Early_life

    George W. Bush- Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he played baseball, and was the head cheerleader at the all-boys school during his senior year.
    Bush attended Yale University, where he received a Bachelor's degree in history in 1968. in October 1973 he was discharged from the Texas Air National Guard, almost eight months early, to attend Harvard Business School; there, Bush completed his six-year service obligation in the inactive reserve.There are a number of accounts of substance abuse and otherwise disorderly conduct by Bush from this time. Bush has admitted to drinking "too much" in those years and described this period of his life as his "nomadic" period of "irresponsible youth". On September 4, 1976, at the age of 30, Bush was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) near his family's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. He pled guilty, was fined US$150, and had his driver's license suspended in Maine until 1978.Bush then attended Harvard University, where he earned his MBA,
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Childhood_to_mid-life


  • Weydon
    April 17

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    LOL

  • All knowledge is rateable regardless of whether it has been acquired informally or formally.

    The level of sophistication of every era dictates the minimum education requirement.However, the fact that knowledge is hierarchical is observable.

    It is also an observable fact that knowledge develops reasoning. Knowledge has precedence over reasoning. Knowledge determines one's reasoning level.

    So, every era has its own unique knowledge hierarchy.In all knowledge hierarchies, its a fact that knowledge at the bottom of the hierarchy has more deficit than knowledge up the next level and above.And its a fact that knowledge develops reasoning equal to its level.Thus, its a fact that one can not reason above their knowledge level.

    All knowledge is rateable regardless of whether it has been acquired informally or formally.A test is a most reliable and proved way of rating knowledge. Thus, anyone who has acquired knowledge informally should take a test to see what level their informally acquired knowledge evaluate to.

    Abraham Lincoln's informally acquired knowledge evaluated to requirement level of a lawyer in that era. Thus, he was admitted to the bar.So, his informally acquired knowledge was tested and it evaluated to success.

    So, president's knowledge must be tried and tested.Since president is a leader, their reasoning must have less deficit.
    University education and reasoning have less deficit.

    Thus, president's education level must be pitched at university level.



  • bob2314
    April 17

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    The President surrounds himself with advisers.
    If he is smart enough to take their advice than he can be as dumb as a stump as long as he can make a good speech.

    this president is smart he has an MBA from Harvard. they don't give those away no matter who your daddy is. he has one fatal flaw he trips over his face every time he opens his mouth. in this way he is a failure in the one visible thing the president does rally people. if john kennedy were president not only would we be in this ******* war the recruiting lines would be around the block like after 911 and they would be unnessary because the iraqi people would be winning their own freedom.
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