[Bloodstalker]

I think a lot of people view intelligence as a crutch to make themselves in their own mind better than the next person in some way. No one wants to be average in any way, not just in intelligence. It's the same when you are talking about looks, sports, etc.... everyone wants to feel like they are the best thing going.

I was never sold on a lot of what people base intelligence on anyway. Seems to me, at least locally anyway, that a lot of people equate being intelligent with having a degree, or having a vast base of knowledge that they got from extensive reading. I know a lot of people who have went through college and look down on certain other people who never finished high school because they aren't up to their personal measurement of what high intelligence should be. To me, that's a flawed assumption. I know a lot of college kids who could sit down and learn a lot from listening to some of the older people who may not have finished high school, but put the basic knowledge that they did have to use and in the process built businesses in some instances, raised families, and made a difference in their community.

Am I against college? No, I went myself. But I see no reason to believe that anything I learned there makes me smarter than anyone who didn't, I just spent a few years studying a subject that interested me while they spent that time pursuing their own interests and life.

I don't think intelligence should be measured by the amount that you learn, or by how much natural ability you might have in certain areas, I think a much more accurate measureing stick is how well you can apply what information you have learned and make it work best for you.