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Friday, January 27, 2006
What makes a person smart?
I saw this on the Carnival of Education and just thought it was really interesting. The teacher/blogger known as “Letters from Lisa” asked her class recently to anonymously answer the question: how do you know if a person is smart? Here’s some of what they said:
- A smart person reads fast.
- A smart person raises his hand a lot.
- A smart person answers a lot of questions.
- A smart person is a good speller.
- A smart person knows a lot about science.
- A smart person gets a lot of problems right in math.
- A smart person knows a lot of words.
- A smart person is nice.
- A smart person is funny.
- A smart person is brave.
Then Lisa asks, “what would adults say?”
So I ask, when you look around at the people in your life, how do you know if a person is smart? Post a response. I think this could be interesting.
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