| I am not so judgemental to assume that I am more intelligent than other people. I may have a masters degree in Psychotherapy and an IQ of 126 but I consider all human beings equally intelligent. I can talk psychotherapy all day long and appear to be intelligent but I am not. I consider my intelligence to be solely attributed to the amount of books I have read and that goes for all professions. The average man uses 1500 words to tranverse life, that is all he needs. We all learn another 1500 words that are directly associated with our individual professions. Just because I know all the names of the psychoanalytic defence mechanisms and the man down the street does not, that does not make me more intelligent that him. He for instance maybe a gardener and be able to name every tree in the UK whereas I could not. Intelligence is not just about how much brain power we appear to have. I consider a simple footballer to be intelligent becauase of his spacial awareness, hand to eye coordination and athletic skills etc. He may not have a degree but he sure is intelligent. It is easy to stroke our own ego's when we were fortuante enough to be able to study to a higher educational level. Thats all it is, ego stroking! |