dagmaraka wrote:education is about education. intelligence is about intelligence. they are not interchangeable.
plenty of dumb people came out of yale. plenty of smart people never studied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
Nyet!
There are different types of intelligence.
Our educational system is a race. The fast learners move ahead. The slower learners don't. Educational theory believes that a Neanderthal man can be taught to be a brain surgeon if enough time was given to teach him.
Intelligence without education, I believe, is like a computer's cpu with a lot of memory space, but no software. The computer does very little. Like all those children of immigrants, whose parents were without education, and lived simple lives, and the children became doctors, scientists, etc.
Regardless, since this is a country with opportunity for fast learners (aka intelligent), education often correlates to intelligence. Naturally, there are those who have intelligence, read and educate themselves, but prefer not to pursue degrees, etc.
But, maybe I can't tell who's intelligent. That would be a backhanded compliment to myself that I can judge someone's intelligence, implying that I am intelligent enough to judge. I only have my own hunches, fraught with my own biases.
