Originally posted by jebster
Really? Why not? Shouldn't your IQ be higher if you've gone to college?![]()
College offers you education.
Intelligence is defined as:
1) The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
2) The faculty of thought and reason.
from http://www.dictionary.com
Education is defined as:
The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
from http://www.dictionary.com
Since intelligence is the capacity, or faculty, for something and education is a knowledge or skill education does not affect intelligence.
It just makes sense that capacity is not affected by application. So while education is an application of intelligence it does not affect intelligence.
To draw a parrallel if I have two 8 once glasses and one is empty while one is full it doesn't change the fact that they are both 8 ounce glasses.