Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for March 08, 2019

Go to the library, pick up a book and read. Use the resources provided to you.

BINGO!!!!!

Very well said!!

I couldn’t agree more.

Intelligence does not equal knowledge. Intelligence is a measure of how well one can obtain and retain knowledge.

I wasn’t aware that schools had some super-secret process for increasing IQ. I would personally enjoy upping my IQ to genius level.

Perhaps the cartoonist needs to investigate this – or just learn the difference between intelligence and knowledge.

@sew-so, where do you get the idea it is “super secret” when it is well known? Genius isn’t IQ and it isn’t really tested for. It isn’t a number it is an ability. And you can reach your optimum abilities but you can’t go any higher in that narrow area beyond you optimum abilities inherent in your neural network you are born with. Benet understood that what he was measuring is malleable to a certain degree. The Stanford-Benet test was to find those below their age level of intelligence to improve them to a normative status. Education is part of it and the use of it along with problem solving and even EQ for how sociable you are. Though that is a different part of the brain.

I get through an entire comment, and GoComics changed pages on me! I’m officially irked!

AS I WAS SAYING, before being rudely interrupted by a computer glitch:

I am a few decades out of date, but it used to be accepted that ‘genius’ was the upper range of IQ, as intelligence was measured (and still is, as far as I know). While some changes could be made, it generally took a lot of concentration and work (to go up), or a lot of NOT thinking about much for a long time (for it to go down). Brain damage can also affect IQ, generally for the worse.

Back in the day, EQ was just coming into the conversation, and was poorly described and understood.

I realize that psychology has made enormous strides in the last few decades (no, I’m NOT saying how long), but I find it hard to believe that intelligence, the ability to learn, has been conflated with knowledge, what is needed to be learned.

What it boils down to, is that there is a lot of things on the market to help children learn, but they basically help children use the intelligence they have.

Unless I missed something.

Maybe the amount is being reduced because the amount being spent isn’t actually used to educate.

Ever notice that government programs are one of those things that the worse they do, the more money is spent on them? “Education” is not an exception. Government schools are rewarded for doing poorly.