Answer three questions about this article.

The most important premise is that intelligence is not separate from religion/science etc nor does one need to leave behind intelligence to be a humble/good person. In fact, I think intelligence guides us in everything we do, that is what makes us the "social animal' different from other animals who were not bestowed intelligence and the ability to go through a thought process.

This article helps my family's education by reminding me why it is that I chose to homeschool my children, that being, because they were losing their curiosity to learn in the public system, thereby "dumbing down". I don't know if I can do better with them at home but that  is my hope and that is why I am excited to be a part of this online leadership education community.

The value of reading this article for me was that, for one, I had never noticed in literature how the intelligent need not be the good/humble/beautiful. I have read many of  the mentioned literature but what was pointed out was never something that occurred to me. Hence, it was very interesting to note how we can over look what seems  to be a common theme yet all along we were probably subconsciously holding on to these ideas, unknowingly. (if that makes sense?) Furthering that, this also shows how our children will take away morals and values from the literature they read without necessarily having a discussion about it and finding out if what they read is right/wrong, good/bad. To give an example: my kids liked the Robert Munsch books a lot and I thought they were creative and if the kids liked them, that's good. But then I realized that when one of the little kids says to his adult parent(s) "Are you craazzyyy" and I hear my child thinking it is ok to say that to me... well I kinda stopped promoting Robert Munsch at home as I had been before.

Okay.  I'm going to be totally honest here with this article.  (As if I would be anything but),  I would like to pretend that I am intelligent and understood everything that was written but the article was a hard read for me!  It rang true with me, (the things I understood) and the thing that stuck out the most to me is that I firmly believe that we were 'intelligences' before we were created as spirits before coming to earth.  This is a personal belief of mine.  Religious if you will.  So, intelligence being a virtue, yes.  

I agreed with the article, it was just a really long article stating what is my belief system.  I don't know if I am making any sense what so ever.  

This article was written in such a manner that reading it quickly before my interview, I did so, but there is so much meat to it and words quite frankly that I don't understand or know, that to truly gain understanding, I need to print it off and study it.  Look up the words I don't know....... process it.  

So, that being said, I don't feel like I am in any position to answer these three questions fully.  Yet.  

I have to admit that the first four sections were difficult for me to read because I am not familiar with all of the examples that were given.  He gave the example of the ideas or intelligence of Darwin shocking the religious community at the time because they were not ready for such large chunks of truth. It is certainly true that intelligence usually comes bits at a time and sometimes in large epiphanies, but intelligence is in us and comes more easily when we have that realization that it exists and then go seeking. Our family does consider it a moral obligation be intelligent, or be more Christ like. To be virtuous is good, but to be virtuous with intelligence gives the vision that the author suggests may be beyond what has been or is being accomplished, but gives us hope that life can get even better.

Here is the link now.

http://publiusgreenman.blogspot.com/2015/06/to-be-moral-or-to-be-intelligent-that.html