7 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 3 Nov \ parent \ on: Are you smarter than a 12-year-old? #2 science
It’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to the popular tv show, “are you smarter than a fifth grader?” Or you can take it as a click bait title haha.
Smart here means book smarts. Sixth graders who can solve questions like this are likely to get more than 90 for their Maths exam. So they are smarter than me, for I definitely won’t be able to get 90 haha. If I undergo hothousing, I may acquire the techniques to solve all these pesky problems though. But which adult has the time and patience these days?
Well, these academic results have real-world implications in my country. Students with high scores get funneled to the elite junior high schools. We are the world kinda mentality doesn’t work when afraid-to-lose Singaporeans are fighting for limited places in coveted schools
In all around the world, the word "smart" is a "key" word which lead to competitive attitude, discrimination, arrongance...and so on.
A smart person is :
-The one who is able to solve mathematic or whatever problem
or
-The one who is able to manage his emotions, energy, mind and body..
That is what i was trying to refer ;)
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