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The theory of intelligence is a theory I have always had a
problem with --- never been able to accept. The theory has the
following assumptions: 1. One's intelligence is single thing, a
quantity that can be measured 2. intelligence corresponds to
the ease or speed at which one learns 3. intelligence can be
measured by a test, the IQ test. When I was in high school I
felt that the entire idea, the entire theory of intelligence,
was a falsehood, a complete untruth, and the primary cause of
inferiority complexes. Moreover, I felt that it was a
horrendous crime against humanity and that not only the people
who originated the theory but all who accepted it and
propagated it were criminals of the highest order
(perpetrators of a horrendous moral crime). The idea
was the primary source of my anger and hostility against
society. I made these charges then and I still believe them to
be true. According to this theory the slow person, who is also
often the conscientious, careful, deliberate person, is less
intelligent than other people. The theory, by implication,
grades people making some mentally inferior to others; and the
slow person is postulated to be inferior. I contested that
idea then and I contest it now. And I still believe that it is
a primary source of inferiority complexes and that it is a
terrible crime against humanity. The person who learns quickly
just accepts and believes ideas and doesn't look under the
surface and question and examine them; he is more believing and
gullible than the careful, conscientious person, less inclined
to reflect over the validity of ideas. Attempting to grade
people in this way is absolutely wrong. The mind is not that
simple.
Feb 2003
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