Intelligence? or Education?

How do you define Intelligence? Does Intelligence mean coming first in your class? Does Intelligence mean cracking IIT or PMT in the first attempt? Or does it mean spending 20 hrs glued to your textbook? Does being intelligent means being literate or educated?


Why do people judge a person's Intelligence by the subject he takes up or the marks he/she gets in the stupid school examinations? Its a general fallacy, that a person who takes up Math is Super-Intelligent and the person who takes up Arts is a good-for-nothing moron!! A normal student today is under so much pressure! Parents, peers, teachers - He's so many people to answer to!

There are SO MANY times when we're prejudiced by the marks we get or we fail in some apparently stupid tests!! "Intelligence just means taking the right decisions at the right time in the right way." So, according to this statement, even uneducated people can be intelligent, can't they? So many people in so many places are under-estimated because people are so blind that they cant see how brilliant they really are. Each person, unless he's mentally retarded, is blessed with a special talent, a special ability with which he can add beauty to this world!! If a person is a good artist and not-so-good at science, why do we only have to point out his cons? Why can't we encourage his talents?? Why do we have to suppress him SO much that he starts feeling inferior??

If people only do what THEY want to do, rather than going with the mob, this world would be such a better place. It should be YOU who decides you are intelligent or not, and not some random person. For once, we all should try to live our lives by our rules. And, one more thing, next time you question a person's so-called "intelligence" or "ability", just think bout the thing you're worse at..!!


Till next time,

Ta-Daaan!!





Lessons Learnt:
1. Every person is intelligent in his own way.
2. We are the one who define our lives, not others.
3. Not one is perfect.