ritux:

Exactly my thought. In most cases, the smart ones end up being entrepreneur in the future and the will employ the brilliant ones to manage and run their companies

jim jones: smart people know how to get the best outta brilliant people. that's all you need to know, poster.

12 inches!:
First of all lemme say I don't believe in cheating in exams and I dnt consider that as smartness. Some people do but not me.

A smart student is one that does all is required to do well in his exams (asides cheating). A smart students tries to guess the likely questions of an exam by checking past questions and makes those his Area of concentration. A smart student may not be a master of the whole course but knows enuff of what is important to get a very good grade. A smart student reads with direction. Lemme give u an example of what I mean. I did a course in engineering design and I knew I wasn't so good in it. The lecturer always sets a question on definition of terms and the other 4 were calculations. As a smart student I ensured that I new all the definitions and since the exam is answer 4 out of 5 and since the definitons are similar every year I jst basically had 3 questions to do besides the definition I crammed. After the definition question, I did 2 calculation questions half way and ended up with a C. A brilliant student might have try to learn all the calculations and given little time will end up with a much worse gradem A brilliant student may just read the whole course material without concentrating on the important parts and end up with an average result.

A-town:


See where you have totally foooooked up. Which formal education did they abandon? Bill gates left school AFTER he had acquired KNOWLEDGE GOOD enough to enable him work on the project that turned into microsoft. You think he just "KNEW" programming out of his mothers womb? The reason why we are sent to school is to develop our brains. For most, the development ends after secondary school. Any new info is basically rejected. College/University courses are designed just for you to apply knowledge you gained from kindergarten through high school. You really don't "LEARN" new things anymore. You are just made aware of different scenarios happening around you. The reason you know what you know or you are who you are is your FOUNDATION. The reason you are able to solve differential equations in college is because you were given the FOUNDATION (how to add 2+2) in your early years.
Your arguement can only hold water if those guys had no elementary/secondary education.

mayorme: Just for example, take 2 students who wrote an exam and passed. In few years later, one student was able to solve thesame problem effectively and the other was not, to me, i feel the one that was able to solve d problem was the the smart one cos most brilliant students i know, just study to pass and they can't reproduce what they just learnt in year to come. This thread is opened for meaningful suggestions. Thanks

Dranatomy: A smart student's knowledge and achievements stops were his training stopped....Brilliant students wil always explore, advance and reproduce wat so ever they ve been taught ten times.....They may always have low grades but they carry stuffs....Smart students needs the paper only just to start fooling around wit nothing offhand than Definition of terms in his field of study

Dranatomy: A smart student's knowledge and achievements stops were his training stopped....Brilliant students wil always explore, advance and reproduce wat so ever they ve been taught ten times.....They may always have low grades but they carry stuffs....Smart students needs the paper only just to start fooling around wit nothing offhand than Definition of terms in his field of study

pro01: Na people wey no sabi book dey console themselves with this kind baseless comparisons. In any case, "brilliant" and "smart" are essentially synonymous. A comparison of 'smart' students and 'brilliant' students is therefore somewhat tautological.

The only reason people go to school is to learn, and the only way to assess how well they have learnt what they are supposed to learn is through examinations, tests, etc. Now, where a student successfully passes examinations, it is reasonable to conclude that he or she is superior to the student who performed poorly in the same examination, all other things being equal.

80% of the time, genuine academic performance (not 'arranged' certificates oh) is a reliable indicator of intellectual ability - otherwise, there would be no need for examinations/tests/assignments in formal education. Admittedly, there are few examples of individuals who did not perform so well in school for one reason or the other but turned out better performers in professional/practical contexts. These are deviations from the norm, and should not serve as basis for needless comparisons.

There is no point making excuses for one's academic deficiencies; no be everybody must sabi book. One might not be gifted in academics, but might be extremely gifted in other areas through which they can become very successful and rich. Examples such as Mike Tyson, Timaya, 2face, Mr. Ibu, Tompolo (lol), Mario Balotelli, etc. readily come to mind. Don't bother comparing yourself with the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. who supposedly dropped out of school to start their businesses. These geniuses dropped out not because they could not cope with school, but because they did NOT need school. They were too gifted academically, intellectually and otherwise to waste precious time in school. Those certified olodos that like consoling themselves with Bill Gates' example should find more appropriate examples/role models.

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it is just like whats d dif betw BIG & LARGE