what is intelligent
Quan Nguyen
Prof Panto
14 October 2013
The Effect of Formal Education to Intelligence
What is intelligence? It is the capacity of understanding things and solves problems. Some people claims that the higher education you get, the more intelligent you are. Therefore, a few people still judge others by their certificates. They suppose that doctors and engineer are always smarter than workers. However, intelligence is the natural ability of a person plus apply other’s experiences. Thus, a person can be intelligent without relying on a formal education. Plus, education might corrupt one’s intelligence because the teachers force students into a default way to apply knowledge, and it could lower the thinking ability of students.
Vietnamese people have an idiom which is we’d better learn from friends than learn from teachers. It means school is not the only way to gain your knowledge. Formal education just provides you knowledge which someone else already discovered; and you will absorb those knowledge passively. It means you don’t use your brain to find out questions. Brain is like body. The more your brain works, the stronger it is. On the other hand, people who experience life early usually are smarter than other people who just stay home and then go to school. The reason is real life is more complicated which always makes your brain work in order to avoid being trapped. In real life, when you communicate to others people, you can learn a lot from them. The subject of knowledge is not limited like what you can learn from formal education. For example, in school, you just study some specific subjects, such as math, literature, physic. In real life, you can learn how to communicate, how to fix things, or how to behave with other people. The knowledge from real life is very variety. The difference between learning from real life and learning from school is people gaining knowledge passively from their teachers. It’s not like in real life which you need to work on
Prof Panto
14 October 2013
The Effect of Formal Education to Intelligence
What is intelligence? It is the capacity of understanding things and solves problems. Some people claims that the higher education you get, the more intelligent you are. Therefore, a few people still judge others by their certificates. They suppose that doctors and engineer are always smarter than workers. However, intelligence is the natural ability of a person plus apply other’s experiences. Thus, a person can be intelligent without relying on a formal education. Plus, education might corrupt one’s intelligence because the teachers force students into a default way to apply knowledge, and it could lower the thinking ability of students.
Vietnamese people have an idiom which is we’d better learn from friends than learn from teachers. It means school is not the only way to gain your knowledge. Formal education just provides you knowledge which someone else already discovered; and you will absorb those knowledge passively. It means you don’t use your brain to find out questions. Brain is like body. The more your brain works, the stronger it is. On the other hand, people who experience life early usually are smarter than other people who just stay home and then go to school. The reason is real life is more complicated which always makes your brain work in order to avoid being trapped. In real life, when you communicate to others people, you can learn a lot from them. The subject of knowledge is not limited like what you can learn from formal education. For example, in school, you just study some specific subjects, such as math, literature, physic. In real life, you can learn how to communicate, how to fix things, or how to behave with other people. The knowledge from real life is very variety. The difference between learning from real life and learning from school is people gaining knowledge passively from their teachers. It’s not like in real life which you need to work on