Not at all. They're mutually exclusive of eachother.

I would think common sense comes more with life experience.

i think it comes from experience or seeing somebody else do it

I don't think so, I know kids with more common sense than some educated adults.

GW graduated from a HIGH class university and well... that should answer the question in itself. Bring on the DRs.

No, but common sense is the reason many get education.

It doesn,t even come with batteries

Actually, due to life experiences, I have been saying for some years now that the trouble with universities is that there seems to be a private deal going on. One in which they must agree to leave their common sense in a locker upon entry, and are not allowed to collect it on exit.

One can only hope

I've known people that are over-educated, or at least became over-reliant on being told what to do/think/say. When a situation arises, they have stumbled, frozen as they tried to think what their professor would say to do.

Nobody can be taught common sense as some people have it and others do not and its a thing that money cant buy.

No way. Having a degree doesn't guarantee "street smarts", or whatever you want to call it. Common sense, life experience, manners, decency.... No... You can be an educated melon head. You could also be someone who never had a lick of education but knows how to get by based on ingenuity and natural talents and instincts. The two go hand-in-hand brilliantly, of course, but I wouldn't rely on education to teach a person common sense. Not yet, at least.

It comes with education, experience, exposure and genetics.

I was married to someone that was very highly educated and he didn't have a lick of common sense.

It does come with education, but some over educated people seem to not have common sense or a thought of their own. But thats just my opinion

Absolutely NOT! I know a number of educated idiots.

With education ,understanding improves!

pretty much you just either have it!...or you dont..

Most people have a certain level of common sense, but I know of some people who have gone through much school and are complete idiots with certain things in life that many people just naturally get, things that aren't taught in school.

Not at all.

In my experience as a uni professor, one can actually teach a little bit of common sense to people who really don't have any at all. But generally the relationship between common sense and education is negligible.

Nope, it gets in the way of zombification. Because that's all education is, making you a zombie that truly doesn't know crap.

Not always although it helps. Most of the educated people I know do have common sense but one or two are the stupidest people alive!

common sense doesnot comes with academic education, it comes with practical learning and sensing

Nope. Sometimes it doesn't come at all. If you have it, count yourself lucky. It really does come in handy.

you'd like to think so..but not always no...

Definitely not. Common sense comes from experience and a bit from the gut.

no it doesn't, i know people with phds and no common sense.

No it doesn't, either you have it or you don't and I think it is something that some of us are just born with and some are not.

Hardly!

common sense is a combination of things ~ its partly intuitive, partly trained deductive reasoning, and partly learned experience. i believe it primarily comes with personal life experience. live and learn as they say. one can also glean rudimentary common sense knowledge from peers, parents, and teachers and a wealth of information resources such as written material, film, etc. some claim common sense cannot be learned ~ but i strongly disagree. what is common sense for an australian aborigine is considerably different from the common sense of a canadian. your environment and knowledge passed on to you by others shapes your "common sense". i believe common sense reasoning can be improved through training and disciplining the mind. logical deductive reasoning can be reinforced utilizing the socratic method, policy debate, logic problems, and other exercises emphasizing sound judgment and rational decisionmaking.

Nope. Common sense comes from the school of life, if you are a good learner.

Leeks5229: Save aswering in the comment box I will answer here. Common sense means to pay attention to the obvious. Human reasoning involves obtaining facts by observation. For instance, if a person see a road traffic accident with injuries does he/she just stand there and look, or do they try to help by calling the emergency services. The person who looks on and does nothing lacks common sense, because a normal thinking person with common sense knowing that people are in pain would call an ambulance or try to assist the injured. A classic example of lack of common sense which I witnessed was that someone told me that at woman had cut here wrists and was bleeding to death on my housing estate. I ran two hundred yards to the house and found the woman sitting on the settee with both her wrists cut to the bone, so I quickly tore some cloth and bound both wrists to stop the bleeding. I then phoned for the ambulance and the police. To my utter amazement her 17 year old son came out of the kitchen carrying a mug of coffee and a plate of toast and sat down watching the television as if nothing was happening. I asked him if he knew his mother was bleeding to death, and he replied, Oh yes, he exclaimed! Why didn’t you use your common sense and call for an ambulance I asked, and he replied that he had not thought of it and carried on eating his toast. To be honest I gave him a right ****** telling off, and I am sure that it went in one ear and out the other. I found out later that he had just finished high school with many certificates of education and was waiting to go to university. So that is one of the reasons that education might teach not you common sense.

No it seems education defies common sense but that is because those people are trying to manipulate you.

If you pay attention to people you can pick up common sense but I can say that school has taught me some common sense, for example once I saw the HUGE scam in the way textbooks are priced it made me aware that most places, including schools, are just out for the money and the students and teachers are the ones that suffer just like any other business. And I can say as a former employee of a school I was around a lot of teachers who yes were very well educated but did not have common sense, we use to use the expression "she has more money than sense" But there was also just as many teachers who were very down to Earth and knew the ins and outs of everyday life.

If I may offer MY two cents worth...I don't think common sense comes with ANYTHING. Even "SIMPLE" people can have education, life experiences, etc. Doesn't give them common sense in the least bit! (refer to DAN QUAYLE, GEORGE BUSH JR, etc) Either you have it--or you don't!!!

Some subjects in education are common sense and basic knowledge like Learning for Life and Work which is a combination of PSHE (health and fitness), Citizenship (democray, cultral diversity etc) and employablity (skills, quilities, work experience to be able to get a job in the future) which is the curriculem over here in the Uk and Northern Ireland (where I live). BUT! Some subjects like English, Maths, Geogrpahy,History are not common knowledge and are needed to be revised over to get the full grasp on some topics.

I wish it did.

No.

No it comes with living!

common sense is learned by doing and living education is something that someone taugh you the you really don't retain

Yeah from an education at the school of life. =D

No, it comes with application and experience in using what you learn.

Not always.

Education mixed with intelligence Peace

Not at all...Case and point...Japanese people are very intelligent but they have no common sense in many cases like this...I was working at a restaurant in Hawaii and we served a group of Japanese soup, some tried to use their forks in order to eat it...I could go on and on but that should get the message across lol

Two entirely different deals, imho. [There are lots of ways for folks to be "smart". Like so many other phenomena in life, things just ain't that 'black & white'] ;-)

Usually comes better from the kind of education that you get from falling flat on your face 50 times before you realize not to do it again.

Not really. I know some very intelligent people but they don't have a lick of common-sense. It seems that many people spend most of their time learning from books and very little time learning from life. Just my take on it.

No. common sense comes with experience. A book can tell you a great many things, but putting what you know to practical use is where you develop "common sense".

I don't think so. I work with people who have had a very good education and they are very good at passing exams, however, when it comes to common sense and putting theory into practice it is a entirely different story.

definitely not. i believe there's a good reason why so many people earn the title "college educated idiot". this was a title many officers were given while i was in the military.

Yes ..... but not the indoctrination so many schools try to pass off as education.

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NOT EVEN!!!! Look at all of the "educated" aerodynamicists who will tell you that--"It is aerodynamically impossible for bumble bees to fly." So, I guess bumble bees have been WALKING all of this time--but we just didn't know it, huh?!?

No, if by "common sense" you mean social skills. +3

nope

No -- common sense comes from experience, and even then, some don't seem to harness it.

Some small amount, of course. Common sense is pretty much an experiential thing, aided by wisdom and knowledge.

Common sense does not mix with education I use it --> lose points every-time

No