2, a person can have a number of patents, often these patents are related, only one or two are core patents, others are value-added patents other than core patents, such as packaging design and so on;
3. Patent and education are two overlapping but non-overlapping fields. Patent, with emphasis on practice. Education focuses on knowledge. You can't create a patent with knowledge but no practical scope. With practice but no knowledge or theoretical guidance, there can be patents, but there are not many core patents, or patents have little contribution to mankind. Only by combining knowledge with practice can we make the greatest contribution to mankind.
4. People with knowledge have a weakness, that is, they are easily bound by known knowledge, and their cognition of new things should be gradual. The advantage of a knowledgeable person is that he can find the passage from here to there. People without knowledge have advantages. They often have a direct understanding of new things, which is in line with human instinct. Ignorant people have a weakness, that is, how to achieve the effect of new things, often like flies.
There are many people without knowledge and patents in history. Edison is one of them. Edison's main point is that he is willing to learn and forge ahead, not to invent without knowledge. Most of his later inventions depended on the intelligence of graduate students: he had ideas and then researchers realized them.
Everyone admires Song Youzhou, but they don't deny the vital role of school education. You know, scientists who have made great contributions to mankind are mostly people who have come out of higher education.