Re: Smart kids, (was Hapworth)

jordie chambers (jordiekc@rocketmail.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 15:15:08 -0700 (PDT) 

Hi all, this is interesting.  I haven't read Hapworth, but
I know about intelligence.  My brother was born a genius,
though I'm simply average.  I went to the same engineering
school as my brother did.  I ask for his advice and he'll
give me more options than I would have thought of at first
glance.  He says that if they had twice as long to write
an IQ test, they would surely score in the genius range. 
Things an IQ test will not measure are creativity, memory,
musical ability, artistic ability and capability of love. 
There is so much more to an individual than intelligence,
but to define intelligence:  the tool used by all
individuals to create ideas using logical reasoning and
comparisons to knowledge.  Intelligent people don't
necessarily have a harder time adjusting to the suffering
in life than dumber people, at least not because they can
accrue so much information at a younger age than most. 
All adjustments are up to the individual, and strength of
character is ten times the reason why successful people
and historic icons are so amazing to us.   





---Thor Cameron <my_colours@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, Camille, you've changed the subject.  You're
equating wise with smart.
> The concept was not "are there wise or old souls in some
children"; the 
> statement was made that a man's small children WERE
smater than him.
> I bow to your definition of wisdom and its appropriate
assignation to 
> certain children, yet I stand by my statement that
"smart" denotes 
> accumulation of information & ability to use it.  C'mon,
get real, a child 
> hitting his best frind because HE got the green glass,
or shoving a bean up 
> his nose, or.... etc.  How "smart" is that?
> Thor
> 
> 
> >Thor wrote:
> > > Be serious.  CAPABLE of being smarter, yes.  CAPABLE
of learning more,
> > > faster, yes.  But smarter denotes accumulation of
information & ability
> >to
> > > use it.
> >
> >Well, I guess that drives a stake between your opinion
on intelligence and
> >mine (and MW's). If intelligence is how many dates of
famous battles you
> >can recite off by heart, how many times tables you can
regurgitate, how
> >many A's you can get on your report card - then
obviously the person who
> >has lived longer has the more information at his or her
disposal. However,
> >true wisdom - that is, the state of being Wise (heck,
`It's a Wise Child'!)
> >is something that I believe certain people are born
with, an intangible
> >which cannot be eroded or changed from birth but just
covered or uncovered.
> >I think this is the sort of intelligence Salinger
intended us to believe
> >Seymour has - however, the innate difficulty in
portraying such a hazy
> >value seems to have led him to plump for a more
`worldly' wiseness for
> >Seymour.
> >
> >Camille
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