NATURE AND HUMAN BEING.

khurshidalam44@hotmai.com Dated 15/3/12. London.

We spend a lot of time acquiring intelligence at the expense of developing intellect.

Intelligence is built by gaining information, knowledge from external agencies, from schools and universities, teachers and textbooks. The intellect is developed through your individual effort by exercising the faculty of questioning, thinking and reasoning. Not accepting anything that does not admit logic or reason. Know the difference between the two. And that any amount of intelligence gained cannot per se build your intellect.

World is a great school of learning. Nature is unfolding itself every day page by page like a book and those who have the basic intelligence picks up from it to pile up in their mind.

It is necessary to have a bit of knowledge to differentiate between these most commonly used words. The para above is over simplistic description of the two given by Hindustan times. Unfortunately they are closely related and intertwined words that a precise differentiation may not be an easy task.

Most of the intellectuals agree with some contradictions that the intelligence is an acquired conscious effort to accumulate information from external resources. The external environment has a pivotal role in it.

While on the other hand intellect is the capability to acquire knowledge. In other words, Intellect is acquiring intelligence without mistakes. While the wisdom could be defined acquisition of intelligence with mistakes.

This added quality arms us to differentiate between the expected result of good or bad, failure or success. In other words wisdom teach us how to apply knowledge in the light of our experience. Wise people are consulted to share basically their experience.

As we say commonly that Mr X is more wise than his age. Acquisition of knowledge and development of intellect require a set time while one cannot put limit ban on wisdom. The more you grow and experience the wiser you are.

In other words experience is a great teacher but the tuition fee is too high. It is saddening that every thing has a fee to be paid for but not consultation in less developed societies. Intellectual has the vocabulary matching his imagination to dress his imaginations. We may give it a name, intellectual wisdom. He may or may not have been on the role of a university. We may say simplistically that he is a student of the university of life.