Can formal education compensate lack of intelligence?

If you properly define "intelligence" it is the ability to learn and then properly apply what you have learned. That has nothing to do with "education". read more

Formal education can compensate lack of intelligence to some extent. Formal education is the education inside the classroom taught by the teacher. Trained teachers will teach us various subjects so that we will get more knowledge on the topic. read more

There is a current debate over the issue of raising intelligence (IQ or g in psychometric terms). Some argue that improving the functioning of capacity functions, such as executive control or working memory, transfers to inferential and problem solving processes measured by intelligence tasts. read more

Yeah, while one can say that there is a correlation between education and intelligence, the two are not the same thing. A intelligent person can take the new knowledge learned from a type of education, formal or informal, and be able to quickly apply that knew knowledge. read more