Measuring intelligence by exams and grades

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Measuring intelligence by exams and grades
“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average
intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the
car is driven.” - Edward de Bono
From Elementary, High school through college, we are defined by grades and exams,
once we climbed the ladder of education; we have or need to be intellectually ready to
move to the next level. Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and
skills and applying intelligence through exams which results will be graded later part
might be a reasonable thing to do but not that effective, its limited and it won’t
completely measures the intelligence of that certain person, it will only separate’s
students and put labels that will group them from “intelligent and not so intelligent”.
One of the good examples is Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist
who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern
physics (alongside quantum mechanics). He failed his University Entrance Exam in
Swiss Federal Polytechnical School back in 1895, but look at the bright side he is now
the father of the modern physics, in 1983 an American developmental psychologist
Howard Gardener described 9 types of Intelligence:
 Naturalist (nature smart)
 Musical (sound smart)
 Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart)
 Existential (life smart)
 Interpersonal (people smart)
 Bodily-kinesthetic (body smart)
 Linguistic (word smart)
 Intra-personal (self smart)
 Spatial (picture smart)
So if you failed in the logical-mathematical intelligence, it doesn’t mean that you’re
dumb, it’s just simply mean that maybe your intelligence is somewhere in musical or etc.
therefore intelligence is not all about high exams score or good grades but rather more on
being interested in that field. Passion is more important than intelligence because with
great passion comes with great intelligence.