Being Intelligent is not the same as being Educated
Add caption Intelligence is one of the most studied topics in psychology yet there is so much confusion and misperceptions about intelligence. There are many definition of intelligence but none of them can define the whole concept of intelligence but the definition by Wechsler somewhat accumulate the aspects of intelligence. "... the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment." Every theorist of intelligence has put some light upon different aspects of intelligence so by relying on just one definition could lead to disastrous results. In educational institutions we often determine a person’s intelligence by their academic achievements therefore blurring the fine line between intelligence and education. Because of this made up overlap we often judge a person’s intelligence in a wrong way. Intelligence is a capacity, the ability to be able to learn new things and produce something, it cannot be evalu...