It's kind of tragic that, in American culture at least, "book smarts" has fused together with the term "intelligence." I feel that public awareness of the differences between terms has slowly been increasing these past few years. But old habits die hard. "Book smarts" implies an ability to memorize information and regurgitate facts. It is unfortunate that our public school system relies so heavily on this term since it usually has very little to do with the challenges of post-school life. Intelligence, on the other hand, has to do with one's ability to apply learned information to different situations. An intelligent person is one who is able to perceive information, retain it as knowledge and then later apply that information to an environment. I think that the most interesting thing about intelligence is that good genes alone will not determine the resulting human. From what most studies have shown, environment must be there to develo...
Thoughts and experiences while exploring the Suzuki Method of teaching.