Intelligence

On Wednesday, For our Discussion we watched a YouTube video of a 9 years old genius. The kid was incredibly smart and very matured for his age. The leading discussions were about “taking our education seriously”. What if we actually come to school to get knowledge and to learn new things rather than just to get a good grade? This is a good point but i think everyone is focusing on the grade because its a bid deal and basically our futures depends on it. We also have to think about that if we don’t have grades how do you measure if people actually learned the material or not?  Either way we are going to have pros and cans. The other question was "Are we taking advantage of the opportunity that was handed to us or we are just wasting it? Like the 9 years old kid are we interested in our education? I believe the 9 years old kid was gifted and I don’t think any 9 years old kid would be like that even if he/she studied hard. Regarding on using our opportunity ,I know I can do better and try to study and actually learn the material rather than just memorizing it in the last minute for the test.