The difference between being intelligent, educated, intelligent and I've always been intrigued by the theme of intelligence. As a child, my mother refers to me as intelligent, but I quickly noticed that all parents refer to their children as smart. In time, I discovered that all children are not intelligent, like all babies are not cute. If this were the case, we would have a world full of beautiful, intelligent people - we have not.
Some of us are smart, but not as smart as we think, and more intelligent than they seem, which makes me wonder, how do we define smart? What makes a person smarter than another? When the street smart "are more important than quirky book? Can you be both smart and stupid? Is this intelligent being more influenced by genetics or environment?
Then there are the issues of education, intelligence and wisdom.
What it means to be educated? What is the difference between being highly educated and highly intelligent? Being highly educated automatically make you a great intellect? Can be very smart without being well educated? IQ really mean anything? What makes a person wise? Why wisdom generally associated with old age?
My desire to seek answers to these questions has inspired many hours of intense research which included reading 6 books, hundreds of research papers, and countless hours on the Internet, which is nothing compared to the lifetime of study and research that pioneers in the fields of intelligence and education as Howard Gardner, Richard Sternberg, Linda S. Gottfredson, Thomas Sowell, Alfie Kohn, and Diane F. Halpern, whose work is cited in this article.
My goal was simple: collect, synthesize, and define data on what it means to be intelligent, educated, intelligent, so it can be understood and used by everyone for their benefit.
Prenatal Care
In this spirit, there was no better (or more appropriate) place to start than at the beginning of our existence as a fetus in the uterus. There is a reason why they call 'prenatal', which means place, existing or performed before birth.
There is increasing evidence that consumption of food that is rich in iron before and during pregnancy is essential for the construction of the prenatal brain. The researchers found a strong association between iron deficiency during pregnancy and decreased IQ. The iron-rich foods are beans, lima beans, pinto beans, spinach, asparagus, broccoli, seafood, nuts, dried fruit, oatmeal, and fortified cereals.
The children with low iron status in utero (in utero) lower scores on all tests and had the ability to significantly lower the language, fine motor, and traceability that children with high levels of iron Prenatal. In essence, adequate prenatal care is essential for the development of cognitive skills.
Cognitive Skills
Cognitive skills are the basic mental abilities we use to think, study and learn. They include a wide variety of mental processes used to analyze the sounds and images, recall information from memory, make associations between different information, and maintain the focus on specific tasks. They can be individually identified and measured. strength of cognitive skills and effectiveness is directly correlated with the ease of students in learning.
DRINKING, pregnancy, and its impact INTELLECTUAL
Drinking during pregnancy is not intelligent. In fact, it is downright stupid.
A study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research has found that even light to moderate drinking - especially during the second trimester - is associated with an IQ of offspring at 10 years. This result was especially pronounced among African-American rather than Caucasian offspring.
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Posted on March 25, 2010.
