Agnetha and Frida education level

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

soulman386 - 13.07.2007, 22:45
Agnetha and Frida education level
I read Bright Lights Dark Shadows. I was confused about the girls level of education cause I'm not familiar with european school systems. What would their education level be by USA standards? High school graduate? It didn't seem like it. It seemed like less than US high school. It's like they left school early to go into show business. Is that right?

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

Bonnie - 13.07.2007, 23:57

As far as I know they both graduated. But European school systems are different from American and Swedish is different from Dutch ( were I come from).
There are photos of Agnetha with the specific hat that kids wear when they graduate ( or studenten in Swedish).
Frida did go to school even as she was singing but she wasn't really interested anymore.

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

Team ABBA - 14.07.2007, 04:20

platobird wrote: Too bad they didn't go to university and get an advanced degree so they could improve and make some money, money, money. ................It's not too late. :eyebrow: ... :agnetha: ... :frida:

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

MMM - 14.07.2007, 08:52

platobird wrote: Too bad they didn't go to university and get an advanced degree so they could improve and make some money, money, money. Now they'll have to work all night and work all day to pay the bills. Poor dears. :lol:

Yes, athough I suspect even if they had, still there would never seem to be a single penny left for . . . them (considering the cost of university!) and really - that's too bad. :wink:

Regards

MMM

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

DancingQueen - 14.07.2007, 12:00

It suprised me too. I haven't read the book yet, but it becomes quite obvious the girls did not have a good education. It is mentioned in other kind of biographies as well. I don't know much about Benny's career at school: I only heard about Björns. Economics was it, or something like that? Nine years is really a short time. Too short if you're asking me. But your relply is really intresting Sinikka!

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

DancingQueen - 14.07.2007, 15:32

That is really a good statement you made, but I think we all agreed that this is about school education, and I think that is necesssary. Some time ago I talked to some people at the age of my parents and they did not spoke a single word in English. I really don't understand those things, I mean, English is a international language. Besides, more things than only knowledge is taught at school. Social stuff is a big part there too, so therefore I would say every single kid needs at least 5 years of good education after primary school.

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

Fire&Ice - 14.07.2007, 16:51

I know the final result counts very much, at least I am proud to have a university degree, however :arrow:

People can educate themselves quite successfully as well. What is important is to read a lot. I also know Frida so to say worked on herself very much, she took a course in French and did quite a lot of reading, ever since the early childhood. The result is more than satisfactory, I must say.. :wink:

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

ABBAnator - 15.07.2007, 00:29

I would like to echo the comments that formal education doesn't necessarily mean educated, and vice versa. Lack of formal education does not mean uneducated. You don't have to be sitting in a classroom to learn. Formal education and intelligence have NOTHING to do with one another. You can have all the classroom education in the world and still be dumb as a stump. You could also have never stepped foot in a classroom and be an absolute genius. Formal education can also have the affect of limiting ones view to formal doctrine rather than being open-minded.

Case in point: The man generally considered as one of the most intelligent to have ever lived, Albert Einstein didn't even make it to High school, he dropped out of school (or was kicked out?) in the 8th grade. But went on to discover many of the fundamentals of the universe and changed the world.

I think formal education is a fantastic way to get a jump on a successful life. I think anyone that has the discipline to complete a formal degree should be proud of their achievement. But it should not be viewed as "the" indicator of anyones education or intelligence.

The members of ABBA found their life's love (music) early in thier lives and went on to become one of the most famous and accomplished group of artists in the modern world. I think in their cases they got all the formal education they needed. I think that is self-evident. :wink:

They all speak at least 3 languages fluently and have all showed talents in many other aspects, so I think they can be considered a considerably intelligent group of people as well.

Bruce :D

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

Anonymous - 15.07.2007, 12:26

Hi again,

I like this subject and I agree with most of you that formal education does not give you keys to success. You need talent as well. Certainly all ABBA members were immensely talented and succeeded without academic degrees. Still I am sure that they succeeded better with some basic education than none at all ;-).

But I am only happy they quit early enough, or what do you think if Agnetha had ended up as a music teacher in Jonköping high school ? :shock:

Anne

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

DancingQueen - 15.07.2007, 14:05

ABBAnator wrote: DQ, no one in this thread is advocating dropping out of school. Your missing the point, relax.

I am relaxing, but I'm always getting serious when it comes to a good discussion. I might have missed the point yes, but the above replies came to me as quite non-realistic. I see how things are going at schools, and it is 75% of hard work and 25% of talent.

But of course you are right: you don't have to be a loser at all, in fact, I don't even want to use that word. Yes, I am fanatic in this way, and that might be a explanation of myself getting offtopic. I am in the highest grade at school, and people seem to think that it is no big deal since you are a smart kid anyway. And know you, that makes me freaking out since I know my grades depend on my hard work and not on my talent because I don't have much talent at all and I am not that smart either.

Success is not the key to a good life either. So yes you all are right in a way, but it does not work like that for many people. All of them have different sorts of talents, and our dear ABBA members should be happy for the fact they got a chance to develop theirs and turn in into something fantastic. ;)

Re: Agnetha and Frida education level

TorOnt - 30.07.2007, 15:15

I don't think that any of them have to worry about being educated enough or not because they have already achieved financial success.

It's now just a matter of being smart enough to know how to hold onto it and make the money work for you so that the taxman dosen't grab it.

Here is a sad example where even though you have a degree you end up working in a low paid job.
My wife is a scientist, graduated as an electrical engineer worked for a couple of nuclear power stations over there and even got a couple of patents which not too many engineers have achieved. When she came over here she could only get a job working in a bank because she didn't have the technical language in english. All I can say is what a waste.

On the other hand I can think of one person who had very little education, was said to be bad in school and destined to be a loser, yet he conquered most of Europe, changed the world with the potential of controlling it.

It's hard to figure out. Just isolated cases I guess.