Andiestotle...

I had my first day of classes today and it went pretty well. One thing made me particularly happy, though. I was sitting in my History up to the 16th century class, and the professor asked us what our definition of intelligence was. He said that he particularly liked Aristotle's definition and was wondering what we thought. I am not the kind of person that just instantly raises their hand. I prefer to see if anyone else gets it right, and if they do, I compare it to my answer to see how close I was. Anyway, about 6 people answered, but none of them got it right, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I raised my hand and told the professor that I believed intelligence was the ability to take the things you learn and observe and relate them to each other. He smiled and said, "What Andrea has said is exactly what Aristotle said."


I could not have been happier.