BOOK SMART VS STREET SMART

“My mother always said I must be tolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
-Maya Angelou

What does being smart entail? Getting good grades in college? Being able to smell a scam from a thousand feet away? Many have always preached education over everything else. But then, the likes of Thomas Edison, Bill Gates and Albert Einstein all dropped out of school at one point and ended up having pretty distinguished lives and careers.

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INTELLECT

What does intellect mean? What does it mean when someone says they are the intellectual type of person?  Let us first take a look at intellect in our Webster Dictionary and get its exact meaning. Intellect-The faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract or academic matters.  2.  The understanding or mental … Read more