I.Q. is a reality
I.Q. means nothing more than this. It means how you compare with your peers. The rest is nonsense.
If a two-year-old can do everything that an average four-year-old can do and do it precisely as well, he’s got an I.Q. of precisely 200.
No more and no less.
This is not based on some arbitrary and often ridiculous test he can pass but on what he can do.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Thomas Edison had been Thomas Edison three years sooner ? Not three years added to the end of his life but to the beginning?
You couldn’t get the same result by creating three Thomas Edisons. But then of course Thomas Edison was Thomas Edison thress years sooner wasn’t he? I mean he was a genius, wasn’t he ?
I don’t know whether or not Thomas Edison ever took an intelligence test in his life or not, but I know Leonardo didn’t.
If we gave Linus Pauling an intelligence test and he got 100, would we take away his Nobel Prize?
Both of them?
Or would we conclude that it was the intelligence test which was wrong?
The only true test of inteligence is what a person does. Every minute of every day is an intelligence test and we all take that test every day.
Intelligence is not a theory, it’s reality.
Genius is as genius does.
No more and no less.
Genius is as genius does
If ever there was a person who scored as a genius on an intelligence test but who never accomplished anything I would propose two things:
1. The worl never heard of him;
2. The test doesn’t measure intelligence.
Genius is as genius does.
The test of whether you can swim is swimming.
The test of whether you can read is reading.
The test of whether you can speak Japanese is speaking Japenese.
The test of whether you are intelligent is whether you do intelligent things.
And nothing else.
The fact is that most highly intelligent people do get high scores on intelligence tests.
It does not mean that all people who get high scores on intelligence tests are highly intelligent.
Neither does it mean that people who do not score highly on intelligence tests are not highly inteligenct.
It does mean that intelligence tests do not measure intelligence.
What you do in life measures intelligence and genius.
Would you rather have a child who got a score of 150 on and I.Q. test and who didn’t really do anything, or a child who could do everything and did so at age four instead of at age eight or perhaps not at all?
What children can do and do, in fact, do is the only true test of what they are.
That’s what I.Q. really means.
- Glenn Doman
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