Hello, everyone.
Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the hive learners' featured post. There's this saying by some students in school: "topping your class via academics does not make you intelligent." You need to do well in every other aspect of life to prove that you are indeed intelligent.
During my secondary school days, I believed intelligence could be measured using good grades. I thought so, because I was getting good grades and believed I was intelligent until the whole story changed when I changed schools.
I met with some students who were good in areas where I was a flop. I feared physics, and I saw students who only wanted to tread where they could find physics questions.
My inability to get good grades In physics, this made me realize that good grades are not a measure of intelligence. Another thing that made me realize good grades should not be used to measure intelligence was when I crossed paths with an old man who had never attended school.
Even graduates meet him for advice on how to go about certain things. Well, if good grades were part of how to measure intelligence, then graduates would be ranked the most intelligent people on the planet, but they are not.
I cannot deny the fact that education is very important and plays a vital role in the lives of every individual, but it does not serve as a measure of intelligence. Going to school does not mean you are going there to become intelligent.
One does not have to necessarily go to school to be intelligent; you can be at home and be intelligent. I have seen many autodidacts who are very well organized when compared to those who claim to be graduates with good grades.
I have seen many who graduated with good grades but lack the knowledge of their left and right. They don't know how to go about things.
In a nutshell, it is not necessary for one to go to school before they are labeled an intelligent individual.
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