MODERN EDUCATION DOESN'T HELP US IN UNDERSTANDING INTELLIGENCE

Hey everyone,

I'm glad to be a member of this community and today I would like us to talk about what school has taught us about being intelligent.

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Because I wasn't particularly good at math, I spent the majority of my life believing that I wasn't smart.

I was pretty split throughout my academic career: either I was totally involved and enthusiastic or I couldn't care less. Looking back, I can now see that what I originally saw as one of my worst flaws was, in a strange way, wisdom. Reciting knowledge again on a test didn't concern me. I had some understanding of what I was studying and how it related to my life. Instead of formulas I knew I would personally never have to apply, I was more interested in an economics class where they talked about bonds, loans, budgeting, and investing – real life things.

I was most attracted to things that made sense to me. Books. English. Creating and reading. due to the fact that this seemed to be the study of existence. You don't just read; you comprehend; you don't just write; you make notes and organize your thoughts and experiences. This meant to me that investing time and thought into learning about history and connecting with the universality of the human experience will result in a better, simpler, and happier life for me in the future.

I understood that I had mistaken my disinterest for stupidity.

I never thought of myself as being "intellectual" since I was only ever taught about one possible way to be intelligent, and that wasn't how I was.

The potential of intelligence. Understanding is it. It applies to all fields and is the capacity to learn and put to use knowledge and skill. Although we are aware that this isn't always the case, intelligence is often associated with ease. Some of the most intelligent people also tend to be the most painful because they intellectualize and analyze every aspect of their lives to the point where they miss out on the beautiful things that cannot be explained by logic or reason, such as love, being, joy, etc. They also tend to be more aloof and reserved.

A poet's capacity to observe their experiences and write about them beautifully isn't as admirable as a mathematician's capacity to calculate mathematical equations because the former will hardly get you into the university while the latter will. We only revere the intelligence that presents itself in an abstract, typically academic way because we live in a world that values ends to means.

In light of this, we do not value emotional intelligence. It's not innate intellect. It is intellectual substance. Our children are taught that at school. More important than being able to innovate that notion, argue, and actually develop your own thought process is the ability to agree and support what you have already been taught. Understanding what is actually there is more important than imagining what might be. The ability to memorize is more important than the ability to create.

Therefore, intelligence is a choice since in order to be taught, something has to be actively and voluntarily learned. It's not a lack of it; it's a change of viewpoint. Realizing that a civilization, not an individual, defines our traits in terms of what is important to that culture

It's time to start thinking about intellect as subjective rather than objective. There are mental limitations that, in some ways, prevent people from reaching different levels of comprehension, but who's to say that can't be overcome? Who is to say that they were ever anything but negative? Who is to say that an incomplete comprehension of one school of thought won't lead to an understanding of another, one that is more useful and modifies another school of thought?

We all possess a particular type of intelligence, but we cannot pick it. Although we cannot pick our degree, we can decide to reach the full extent of our ability. not by getting better marks. Not with nicer stuff, though. In the knowledge that everything starts with a perception of what you believe you are capable of, which is frequently, but incorrectly, topped off at the highest possible GPA.

Realizing that you have a choice in how you think is the first step. The issue is that there is only one valid way to demonstrate that you are intelligent, deserving, and smart, and that is by demonstrating how it converts into financial reward directly, follows the preset trajectory most precisely, and is justified by these standardized measures.

You can choose how you think, but if you just assume that there is a "correct" way to think—a method that is intelligent, you will never be intelligent.

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CC,
@whitestallion