99. What does “smart” mean?
[From Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams http://www.squidoo.com/stop-stealing-dreams]
Our economy and our culture have redefined “smart,” but parents and schools haven’t gotten around to it.
Some measures are:
SAT scores
GPA average
Test results
Ability at Trivial Pursuit
These are easy, competitive ways to measure some level of intellectual capacity.
Are they an indicator of future success or happiness? Are the people who excel at these measures likely to become contributors to society in ways we value?
There’s no doubt that Wall Street and the big law firms have a place for Type A drones, well educated, processing reams of data and churning out trades and deals and litigation.
The rest of the straight-A students in our society are finding a less receptive shortcut to prosperity and impact, because smart, this kind of smart, isn’t something that we value so much anymore. I can outsource the ability to repetitively do a task with competence.
And what about the non-dreamers with C averages? Those guys are in real trouble.
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