03/11/03: The Nature of Intelligence

It depends on how you define "smart". I roughly define smart as "being capable of learning more or at a faster pace". Obviously this isn't a precise definition, but it works for me.

You seem to be meaning "erudite" when you say "smart", which, to me, is flawed. There are definitely stupid people who are not capable of learning some things. There are definitely smart people who are not learned. And there are people that, even though they're not particularly sharp, have worked their asses off and become quite knowledgeable about a great number of things. And, of course, there's everything else too.

Any learning accomplishment should be applauded, but I think the word "smart" is being misused (though not in this case).