Marilyn vos Savant - Improving Education

Marilyn vos Savant discusses some of the difficult issues of education, and proposes that allowing people, including children, more freedom to pursue their own interests instead of forcing the same curriculum on everyone would result in more passionate and more intelligent people.

Category:

Education

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• Marilyn
• vos
• Savant
• education
• freedom
• motivation
• intelligence

[Blammo777]

It makes me laugh when people say that she sounds intelligent but not extraordinary. What do you people expect her to do??? Speak in tongues, 24 languages at once!? Everybody during their lives attempts to make themselves socially adept to gain acceptance from peers and hence base a foundation for self esteem. This explains why schools often fail to identify the gifted child from the more normal intelligent ones. In their attempt to fit in, gifted kids don't always get noticed-especially boys.

[androkyle]

Marilyn once said, "The ineffectuals curse the darkness, the effectuals create the light bulbs and the pseudointellectuals curse the light bulb." Marilyn is undoubtedly a light bulb in this dark world. Her critics--chiefly with the petty grievance that she isn't omniscient and infallible--are the pseudointellectuals.

[maurapple]

She is living proof that you can have both brains and beauty.

[LogicCheck]

@CarCriticAssessor: Hey you comments man, have to say that you're a brianiac. It seems that you like to do onto those whom bug you what happens here on utube:

*brainiac slow motion slap

Crazy scary smart. Got my vote for Master Brianiac of the Moment, hands down (on somebody's face): LMFAO! Even so, my guess is that your ego is extra healthy as hers. It seems you're into her looks and not just her matching brain. Don't KO my IQ, but SAT hit 3 700's+ CMF!!!U peace

[CarCriticAssessor]

Tacitly, she, wittingly or unwittingly, touches upon the "tip of the iceberg", re the hidden hand in education--driving curriculum internationally, no less--as exposed by eg, Charlotte Iserbyt: "The MIS-education of America (NWO, Illuminati, Communism)",aired on Alex Jone's show (see: Youtube VIDs). That broached, moving onward, for posterity's sake, it is important to note that her facial features, in person, are even (when I met her), and her eyes--within the kohl--shown an electric eagle-gold

[Jotto999]

"Why Shakespeare at grade 10? I didn't understand it until I was 30".

That's a moment where I connected very well with her. I don't really know how "intelligent" she is, ambiguous as the term is. However it seems her mind is very clear and she knows about many diverse subjects, and also that she takes active steps to minimize bias and fallacy. Even if you find IQ to be a very incomplete measurement, she no doubt is a very bright mind and interesting to listen to.

[ArcadeChameleon]

Her speech may not be completely extraordinary, but if you analyze the way she strings words together, you will find a deep, outwardly sense of intelligence. You are able to see intelligence in her actions, and how she is a very smart person, with or without the big words. The length and complexity of speech does not have anything to do with intellect; the phrasings an individual uses does not necessarily have to do with being technically-minded, because many try to hide it to be accepted.

[congtron]

@Blammo777 She sounds like someone from 1985.

[somedump]

@Jammieg001

What's "maturing"? Reaching sexual age the first? If so, no, they're concerned only with intellectual maturity - and yes, there's a high correlation between intellectual maturity and IQ, but that is not literary and directly what IQ measures obviously: Different IQtests vary in what they attempt to measure, but usually it's measuring the ca. intellectual level of the 'most common areas' argued to be the areas which are the most important to make it (make good decisions etc)

[Jammieg001]

@somedump A question or the truth is often whatever one wants to make of it, for example,

humans have the longest mental maturation rate of any species, in fact "intelligence" is considered to be highly correlated to mental maturity rate...does the "gifted and talented" program reward those who mentally mature the fastest to some degree? Is that too vague?