I've been observing this for years

[nassir]

Caught this story on NPR today. There've been people I've tried to explain this to for a while now, albeit without evidence. That the major difference between people intelligence-wise, is their own belief in their capacity to learn.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7406521

Comments

[pirate_fae]

Thank you for sharing that... It's fabulous news to have backup for what I've known intuitively all along.

[nassir]

Exactly. That was the same thing I said.

[paisli]

Is that why I'm sooooo damn smart ;) hehe

[synhiali]

This has always been true. IQ tests merely measure speed of learning, not actual intelligence. The question is, can we change our educational system to truly benefit students, not just kick them through an assembly line like cars?

[nassir]

Agreed, just in talking with a lot of people over the years...there's often a lot of misinformation about what intelligence actually is. I think still a lot of people still mistake intelligence with having knowledge.

I think part of what needs to happen at a societal level, is to understand that learning takes two people. There seems to be this perception that going to school is just a matter of 'downloading' knowledge into students.

[synhiali]

As an added note, the current educational buzzword for this stuff is Brain-Based Learning.