In today’s society, we are raised to believe mandatory standardized test scores accurately define an individual’s intelligence. Along with that, we are also taught that having a low GPA score means we are senseless and useless, and a high GPA score means we should expect a successful future because we are so bright and intelligent. Standardized tests and GPAs are both common mechanisms for measuring intelligence, but are also systems which can be cheated. For this reason, intelligence is not something that can be measured by a silly test; it is something that is far beyond the idea that it can be defined by numbers. It is a set of skills most adapt as they age and progress through life. Intelligence is picked up from lessons learned in life,
