It’s Time To Teach Teachers & Parents High IQ Is Nothing – “Walang Bubo!”

When I was in high school, I took the Reader's Digest test, and I found my IQ was that of a Genius. I forgot the figure but I know it was a high IQ score.

In the Facebook sharing (above), author Adrien touts the IQs of African Ramarni Wilfred, IQ of 162; African-American Anala Beevers, 4 years old, IQ of 145+; and British Alannah George, IQ of 140 (19 Nov 2021, “Three Young Geniuses Among The Highest IQs Ever In The World[1],” Green Living Tribe, Greenlivingtribe.com).

So what? A high IQ is nothing!

An agriculturist – BSA major in Ag Edu, UP '65, 2.36 weighted average, with a few 5’s – and a self-taught warrior writer in communication for development (ComDev), which is this genius’ own brainchild, I am quite interested in the state colleges & universities (SCUs) in my country the Philippines – the SCUs should revise their curricula to consider this:

Each of us has a different High IQ!

In 1983, Harvard psychology professor Howard Gardner presented his brainchild “Multiple Intelligences” (MI) in his book Frames Of Mind (Basic Books, 440 pages, Worldcat.org[2]). Here is the MI list:

1. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“Body Smart”)
2. Existential Intelligence (“Life Smart”)
3. Interpersonal Intelligence (“People Smart”)
4. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“Self Smart”)
5. Mathematical-Logical Intelligence (“Number/Reasoning Smart”)
6. Musical Intelligence (“Music Smart”)
7. Naturalist Intelligence (“Nature Smart”)
8. Spatial Intelligence (“Image Smart”)
9. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence (“Word Smart”).

Even as a formally-trained educator in the single IQ world, when I read about Gardner’s MI theory, I immediately fell in love with the idea that each of us has his/her innate or natural genius –which the schools should be able to discover. MI is the theory that says:

“Walang bubo!” There are no stupid people!

Frank Agapito Hilario? Not an athlete. Not life smart. Not people smart. Not self smart. Not number smart. Not music smart. Not nature smart. Not image smart. I say “So what?!” 8 times I say to myself: “Not. But I’m a creative writer!”

I discovered myself. All the teacher has to do is help the student discover where s/he is smart – then teacher and student will live happily ever after!

Now you can see the implications of Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences – the teacher has the ultimate duty to help each learner to discover one’s innate talent!

The power of multiple intelligences should now prevent or erase the stigma of “stupid” among learners.

Now, how to apply MI in Agriculture? For instance, at UP Rural High School, considering each learner:
(UPRHS image from Pagpupugay[3], Facebook)

If body smart? Encourage athletics.
If life smart? Encourage leadership.
If people smart? Encourage teaching.
If self smart? Encourage self-mastery.
If number smart? Encourage a business mind.
If music smart? Encourage musicality.
If nature smart? Encourage philosophy.
If image smart? Encourage painting.
If word smart? Encourage creative writing.

With each child, now you know the smart thing to do. Teacher or parent, if you don’t know yourself where you’re smart, go discover your inborn smartness!@517


[1]https://greenlivingtribe.com/three-young-geniuses-among-the-highest-iqs-ever-in-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR3qjSizMln93bGWIm6kWM3KN3_h032kelroue_EK8C7ElYHrJdcp3zV518

[2]https://www.worldcat.org/title/frames-of-mind-the-theory-of-multiple-intelligences/oclc/9732290

[3]https://www.facebook.com/pagpupugay2018UPRHS/

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