# Is there anything more pure than the naivete of students?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 6, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538 "2003-03-06T18:12:41Z")
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### Author:  [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/1 "2003-03-06T18:12:41Z")
From [this article](http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030306.wxpeac0306/BNStory/National) in the Canadian newspaper, The Globe & Mail.
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> “We students are the people who are going to run society in a couple of years, and we are against this war,” organizer Valérie Leclerc said as she marched along Ste.-Catherine Street toward the U.S. consulate. “We think there are better ways to solve this problem.”
I love how students believe that, once they come out of school with their undergraduate degree, not only will they be the world’s masters, but everyone will be clamouring at their door for their opinions. If she is going to be running society in a couple of years, I think we have far more to fear than a Saddam on the loose, a Saddam corralled, a justified war or an unjustified war. We must fear Valérie.
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### Author:  [@Phatlewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phatlewt)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/2 "2003-03-06T18:14:19Z")
Yeah, but what else are you going to do while in college? Go to class?
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### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/3 "2003-03-06T18:24:27Z")
I remember when I graduated college… oh how _smart_ I thought I was now.
Then, I went to law school and realized just how complex everything is compared to what you learn in college and how the college profs spoon-fed me their own dogma with very little critical thought.
I’m still not that bright, but I think I’m a helluva lot smarter now than I thought I was then. Huh?
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### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/4 "2003-03-06T18:26:08Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Bearflag70 \*
> **I remember when I graduated college… oh how _smart_ I thought I was now.**
Delete “now”
Geesh! I’m an idiot! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/5 "2003-03-06T18:38:26Z")
So the constant feeling of stupidity is good for me?
Just checking. This growing up crap is obnoxious.
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### Author:  [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/6 "2003-03-06T18:44:17Z")
My experience:
Upon graduation: Know-it-all mouthpiece
For a few years thereafter: Found-out-how-little-I-really-knew-and-felt-pretty-dumb-for-it mouthpiece
Now: Comfortable-that-I-know-what-I-know-and-don’t-feel-too-bad-about-the-stuff-I-don’t-but-always-striving-to-learn-more mouthpiece.
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### Author:  [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-pure-than-the-naivete-of-students/159538/7 "2003-03-07T06:56:06Z")
I’m still in college and I’m well aware that I don’t know everything and am not as smart as I think. So that means I’m actually smarter than I think, right?