Do you think 99% of us are equal in learning abilities??

Question

I think that almost all people who are consiedered to be "smart" or "genius" are not born with it, they just work harder. What do you think?

Answer 1

My learning has always come easily. Before I started school, I taught myself how to read by reading everything I could get my hands on. (I learned how to sound out the letters by listening to my sister practise her schooling - she was 3 years older than me)

I was in an accelerated class at school where 10 of us skipped a grade. Only a couple of us never had to work hard for it.

My own youngest daughter was like me, in that she was listening to me teach her older sister the alphabet for school. At 18 months she knew her whole alphabet and all her numbers to 100. My oldest daughter would end up teaching the younger one everything she had learned at school that day, when she got home.

Now my youngest daughter's oldest child is following in our footsteps. He has known all his letters and numbers since 18 months. Was also reading before he started school. Loves Math and Sciences (like me - his Mom was more into the Arts).

I wouldn't let my daughter accelerate through school. She's not letting her son do it either.

The peer pressure involved when you are so much "better" than your classmates, and it's provable because you're so much younger than them, causes enough problems emotionally for the recipient that acceleration programs should be abolished. What should take their place is one school in each community where all the gifted students can go to learn at their own pace. It would remove the pressures of trying to fit into a school system that only wants you to be "average".

Answer 2

Some people don't want to learn, they close off their mind to all new ideas that might seem too abstract for them. I believe that this closed-mindedness can hold some people back in learning new ideas, processes, or ways of doing things because they tune out what they don't want to hear.
Also, just because you can memorize information and repeat it back instantly doesn't necessarily mean you are smart or a genius. A true genius has their own answers to everything, and has original thoughts

Answer 3

I think that there are some people who will never be labelled smart, nor genius, no matter how smart they may actually be, but, learning abilities can be taught to most people..
But 99%? NO..

Answer 4

I have been a teacher for many years. Some people are born with it, believe me. However, the people that are naturally smart aren't necesarily the most successful. Those are usually the hard workers. Brains don't mean much if you don't have focus, dermination and motivation.

Answer 5

Some children are born with "learning disabilities"and later on in life they become successful.

Answer 6

None of us are equal. We are individuals with our own strengths and weaknesses. There are lazy geniuses, who cruise by. There are diligent people with "average" intelligence who push themselves to their limits. There are straight A students who can't do anything in real life. There are high school dropouts who are self-made millionaires.

Answer 7

We are almost all equal in learning DISabilities, but we blunder through life.