Okay, let's face it. Some people are smart and some people are dumb. Does a person's actions in his or her life and their own personal ambition to educate themselves determine how intelligent they are? Or, is intelligence merely something that someone is born with?
2006-12-28 13:12:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Your genes give you a head start, but the brain is like a sponge.
What you do with it is up to you.
2006-12-28 13:15:52 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To a large degree, it is something we are born with. That said, whatever you are born with can be greatly enhanced by stimulation and education. Like a muscle, it's capacity becomes greater when it is exercised. Conversely, the mind of a genius born to an imam in Syria relegated to reading the koran all day will quickly atrophy
2006-12-28 13:23:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's the ability to face reality or embrace the denial of what we wish to be true that speeds up our intelligence, evolution and progress as a humanity and society
we are all born unequal, equally mostly out of a woman, but unequally into different scenarios
it's our choices and will to survive that define us
2006-12-28 13:16:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Born with.
Watch the movie Little Man Tate.
He could READ WORDS at age 2.
Without anyone teaching him HOW to read.
There is a few people out there like him. They are born smart.
2006-12-28 13:15:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite, very a lot so. the less difficult that is for the guy to study new skills and abilities, the extra that correct will finally be able to do. for that reason s/he's not constrained to any unmarried 'pastime', yet can walk out and initiate someplace else, doing some thing thoroughly diverse, at any time. not basically can we study extra rapidly, yet we are waiting to carry close options extra completely, so as that we are able to locate procedures to do some thing extra effectively and extra rapidly. maximum human beings hate us for that reason, even even though it isn't our fault that we were born with this different benefit.
2016-12-01 06:58:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's definitly a genetic component, but if it's not developed through education and stimulating activities it will not reach it's highest potential.
2006-12-28 13:16:43 · answer #6 · answered by soulguy85 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if your parents have gone to college there is a higher chance that you will. ( i read that for a report)
If you have parents who value education you will have better experences that will enhance your educations
so intellegence is somewhat tied to genes
but people who are over achievers go to college there children will have a higher chance of getting a higher education.
2006-12-28 13:21:07 · answer #7 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone starts out with certain skills and talents, but I think true intelligence is what you do with what you got! ^-^
2006-12-28 13:15:37 · answer #8 · answered by roxusan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone is born smart and intellegent....
thats the way GOD made all of his children....
its up to us to decide....
all you have to do is listen and pay attention to everything and everyone.....
2006-12-28 13:19:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
part of it is genetics, but its also potential and what you do with it
2006-12-28 13:34:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋