Since my early childhood days, I was made to understand that the kid with the best grades in class was the most intelligent while the one with the poorest was a dummy and I believed this for a very long time but I soon found out this isn't the way it is in life. Good grades though nice and desirable aren't the yardstick for intelligence or sagacity.
Why?
To start with, intelligence is the ability of one's mind to comprehend truths, principles and rightly apply acquired knowledge.
From history, we see that the world's greatest Scientists, who applied the principles of science to invent most of the present day technological techniques were not the smartest in their classes back in school. They didn't have all the good grades for example, one of the greatest Scientists of all time- Albert Einstein who developed the Theory of Relativity.
Good grades are beautiful and the desire of every student or most 馃(if not, why all the night studying 馃檭馃檭) and they to some extent show one's intelligence scholastically but not in other areas of life.
For example, one may be intelligent in Math but not in the world of Business. The real world plays by different principles. Intelligence in life is not guaranteed by good grades but from one's ability to learn, understand facts and there are various means and places for this apart from the conventional Educational Instititutes.
The purpose of going to school is to acquire knowledge so we can use that knowledge to solve real life problems by applying them in the right way.
UNICEF is the body decides what is to be accepted as science and what is not to be accepted globally so, of they have a twisted mentality, how could the syllabus they hand down to the schools through their network of educational bodies be a worthy measurement of someone's intelligence?
So, you see? Each one is responsible for his own upbringing. Anyone can gain intelligence as long as he is open to learning and correction.
Till next time lovelies...Keep believing
This is my response to the Hive Learners Weekly Engagement Prompt here
