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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:41 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:32 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:38 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:40 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:16 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:18 pm
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I took a class in college that was all about different learning styles and different types of intelligence. As part of the course, I had to take one of those standardized EQ tests. My score was so low, my fellow classmates thought I had cheated.
I was told that it means I don't empathize very well. It's true. I don't usually feel what other people are feeling; most of the time human emotions seem illogical to me. But that does not mean that I don't understand why people feel the way they do; it just means that my brain processes information differently and reacts differently to that information. It also does not mean that I can't communicate with people or that I'm socially awkward.
Intelligence is not limited to the emotional and the cognitive types--there are also musical, kinesthetic, linear, and verbal, to name the ones that I remember. It's silly the way we usually define intelligence as being good at math, or science, or language arts, when there are so many other ways we use our brains. Is a professional football player, who can control and coordinate his muscles and physical reactions in ways I can't even imagine, unintelligent because he doesn't understand the irony in an Oscar Wilde? Evolutionarily speaking, irony isn't exactly necessary to a species' survival. But it does make for a really great play, and culture is important to most humans.
I guess what I am trying to say, in a rather long-winded manner, is that no type of intelligence is more important than another. Choosing one would be like saying that there are some people who just aren't as important as others because they aren't as intelligent. How can you say that someone who gets along with everybody is more important than someone who could find the cure for cancer? Or that someone who can build a robotic surgeon is more important than someone who can sit by the bedside of dying patients every day? The truth is we need all of these people, and every person's special brand of intelligence is important.
That's just my opinion.
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:27 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:57 pm
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 10:58 pm
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:13 pm
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:02 am
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