Doff your Convocation cap and Don your thinking hat.

Learning does not always take place in classrooms, or colleges, it mostly takes place in family, other environments and work places, which also teaches you apart from molding behavioral patterns. Moral principles in human relations are perhaps the most glaring gap in traditional teaching. It winds up being appropriated by religion, with its bias toward the supernatural or authoritarian ideas of state.

The most important skill of thinking is not taught in schools or colleges. We resort to all fancy engineering and MBA degrees in order to prove that we are intelligent. Higher education by itself does not translate into knowledge; it only provides the building blocks of a good foundation in learning and analysis of problems. It is the work, life or career experience that can transform that learning into knowledge and build up our intelligence.Highly intelligent people do not necessarily make good thinkers. Thinking is a skill, not intelligence in action. Thinking is something that we can’t acquire with a college degree in Humanities, Science or Commerce topped off with an MBA degree.
We tend to resort to all sorts of strategies in order not to use our brains. Thinking is hard work, so everyone avoids it. We need to have as much idea work as we do information work. We must realize that the analysis of data is not enough. The analysis / paralysis syndrome is a fad in all companies, where whole days are wasted in meetings behind closed doors. All situations closed cannot produce ideas, we confuse fluency with substance Getting out of the cave, walking into the real wide world and seeing things as they really are: that’s what the philosophy of knowledge is about.
Maybe with the Internet and Telepresence video conferencing people will learn what the true cognoscenti have long known. Anyone interested in knowing what's really happening or in changing the way things are don’t go to boring meetings or seminars.