It’s actually not. People who are brilliant in one topic could be easily stupid in another. Picasso couldn’t do calculus. Fish can’t climb trees.
It’s very rare to find an actual stupid person. Uneducated, sure. Ignorant, you betcha. But to be actually stupid across the board, you either need to have a real genetic deficiency, or be stubborn in your ignorance.
And I found that people who think others are stupid very often do so because they are ignorant themselves about the multiple types of intelligence.
It’s a reference to measures of intelligence sometimes being poorly thought out. Imagine if a monkey society came up with a basic competencies list. Among the list would probably be the ability to climb a tree. Now imagine if the monkey society tested a fish according to their competencies list. The fishwould be deemed lacking due to their inability to climb a tree.
It’s the same thing with asking a painter to measure the stars or asking a manager to do middle school-level math.
It’s actually not. People who are brilliant in one topic could be easily stupid in another. Picasso couldn’t do calculus. Fish can’t climb trees.
It’s very rare to find an actual stupid person. Uneducated, sure. Ignorant, you betcha. But to be actually stupid across the board, you either need to have a real genetic deficiency, or be stubborn in your ignorance.
And I found that people who think others are stupid very often do so because they are ignorant themselves about the multiple types of intelligence.
How does the fishes inability to climb trees make them stupid?
It’s a reference to measures of intelligence sometimes being poorly thought out. Imagine if a monkey society came up with a basic competencies list. Among the list would probably be the ability to climb a tree. Now imagine if the monkey society tested a fish according to their competencies list. The fishwould be deemed lacking due to their inability to climb a tree.
It’s the same thing with asking a painter to measure the stars or asking a manager to do middle school-level math.
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It’s a figure of speech