I OFTEN see people mixing the concept of education with intelligence. In my opinion, there is a vast difference between education and intelligence. Although both ideas involve knowledge, they are entirely different concepts.
Education is merely a knowledge acquired from an outside source like school and college, while intelligence is an in-built quality ofaperson tolearn,to understand and to use that knowledge. A person can be born intelligent but cannot be born educated. But unfortunately people use education and intelligence interchangeably as if they are synonymous with each other.
This is actually not their fault because we have been taught at schools that the student who gets highest grades is considered the most intelligent and smartest student, ignoring their other qualities.
Intelligence can befoundin every other personinvarying degrees.Thisintelligence can only be bolstered by education and knowledge; they can never make a person a more or less intelligent. Sometimes a person is perfectly talented and capable of many differentthingsbutjustbecausehe does not have same educational opportunities as others, he is not perceived to be intelligent.
On the other hand, people with advance degrees like doctorates do not have more than average intelligence.Education is a poor measure of intelligence. There are people who are intelligent but uneducated and vice versa.
