How do you define "Intelligence"

I think the main thing is logical rationale.

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Originally Posted by Dean

I remember thinking my honors physics course was the hardest class imaginable. Lol. I think I even posted a thread on beef about it, explaining how I'll never be able to handle the course. (Leading me to buy a book on how to become more intelligent lol) The class revolved around Critical thinking, as in, you had to THINK on the tests. This was unheard of, seeing most of my classes were just memorizing facts. However, ya boy dean buckled down and ended the class with a 93 overall. Ayyyyyyyyye lol

On another note, American kids aren't learning how to reason or think critically. Obviously, there's a problem with our school systems.

People in my opinion think of schools the wrong way. People can say "schools should force you to think critically" or "schools should have more real world practicality", but for me that's not the purpose of school. School's 100% goal is to teach you how to be taught. The top students aren't there because they are more intelligent, they are there because they learned how to process the information better than everyone else. I haven't used it since so couldn't gauge my ability in it, but I had been able to memorize something like an entire 5 page essay and remember it for several hours (which came in handy as I never studied for any exam). I'd be able to find ways to break it down into small pieces, and remember all of the small parts. School taught me how to do this, and perhaps had I went down a different route it'd have been highly applicable.

I think the main thing is logical rationale.

---------- Post added at 03:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:55 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Dean

I remember thinking my honors physics course was the hardest class imaginable. Lol. I think I even posted a thread on beef about it, explaining how I'll never be able to handle the course. (Leading me to buy a book on how to become more intelligent lol) The class revolved around Critical thinking, as in, you had to THINK on the tests. This was unheard of, seeing most of my classes were just memorizing facts. However, ya boy dean buckled down and ended the class with a 93 overall. Ayyyyyyyyye lol

On another note, American kids aren't learning how to reason or think critically. Obviously, there's a problem with our school systems.

People in my opinion think of schools the wrong way. People can say "schools should force you to think critically" or "schools should have more real world practicality", but for me that's not the purpose of school. School's 100% goal is to teach you how to be taught. The top students aren't there because they are more intelligent, they are there because they learned how to process the information better than everyone else. I haven't used it since so couldn't gauge my ability in it, but I had been able to memorize something like an entire 5 page essay and remember it for several hours (which came in handy as I never studied for any exam). I'd be able to find ways to break it down into small pieces, and remember all of the small parts. School taught me how to do this, and perhaps had I went down a different route it'd have been highly applicable.