How To Become An Intellectual

- You can not have what you do not know. Goethe In fact, it seems, Goethe did not know of what Alexandre Dumas later said: "Every generalization is dangerous. And it is including. " And, of course, above all, for the people themselves that make some generalization. Here are Alexander Dumas is also still in his time did not know that long before both of these authors have made generalizations that were age and will be absolutely safe.

Returning to the generalization of Goethe, we see that, perhaps, every sane person understands that people have the stupidity and ignorance just because still do not understand that there is stupidity and ignorance in general. And, accordingly, when the people clearly and accurately understood that, in general stupidity and ignorance, they will soon cease to possess them. But if you return to the topic of intelligence, then there really Goethe's absolutely right. In the entire recorded history of famous people who had the intelligence, can be counted on one hand, precisely because people still do not really understand what this very essence of intelligence. That is why to date the situation has become so catastrophic that the fit is not just talk about "Educationalism", but also directly on the "intelligentschine" the vast majority of people, including the author's previous term. Anecdote here is that the essence of the concept of intelligence produced by people long before the as a concept, or rather, the word appeared. Quite clearly, accurately, and also shaped the concept is given in the Russian proverb: "When the top of the tail, the head start." By the way, is possible only because of his ignorance, the author of this Notes do not know about any such proverb none other nation in the world.