Educational Style

What is the limit to say if a person is intelligent or not? Is grade school the best parameter to classify the intellectual capacity of a person? The history shows that notable people in their adult life, were considered as not smart in their academical life. The current educational process is too general, and does not work to everybody. In the article “Lisa Ling: What I learned as an average student” by Lisa Ling, is possible to see how is hard for a student that does not has the characteristics that the society looks for.

Known around the world for his excellent job in physics field, Albert Einstein was considered no intelligent enough to get a chair in the Switzerland Polytechnic School. Years later him became the most famous physics scientist with the relative law and another notorious contributions. Unfortunately, schools and universities treat all students with the same model of education giving not space for individuality, those who do not fit its model is classified as not intelligent. Each person has different abilities and capacities, with personal learning style. For example, there are people that can not learn math through conventional ways, but gets it listening music.

The way that parents educate their children is a consequence of educational process, to try warranty their academical success, parents are early enrolling their kids in many activities causing an overloading which is embarrassing them and their better development. “These days as parents, we've become obsessed with paving our children's way toward success. We track their every move; we want them to go to the best schools; we enroll them in programs designed to make them play sports, play music...But I hope we take the time to allow them to figure out what THEY like, what drives THEM”, said Ling.

Intelligence is subjective and has to be treated as so, there is no only one meaning. The current educational style is over-pasted and need to be updated for a more sensitive method, capable to offer the tools for a better self development.