Philosophy Now Forum

Too Smart to Understand

They admit they’ll never know how much sand
lays upon the beach though they will not depart
from their belief in the secular art
of scientific fact rich or bland
almost all listeners can understand;
they stick to their thought instead of their heart,
it’s good for them not that they’re too damn smart,
their mind’s closed to that their Maker has planned.
They, the scientists will basically brand
theism as hocus pocus then start
telling their hard-fact followers how grand
is the schooled bull’s-eye hit by the smart dart
which is why large grants are at their command
—that, and how God’s the one pushing the cart.

Frank G Sterle Jr

Good question, because it has severe relevance to the criteria and curriculum of the western education system, which is now under the capitalist hegemonic umbrella mostly.
Other cultures emphasize firstly an emotional social intelligence, which is integrated within the various social institution's rationale of an holistic, thus egalitarian platform for all of its members' desires.

PS. Mainly meaning by other cultures those that do not have prisons. Societies that structure intelligence on IQ tests are mostly hierarchical, therefore, the consequence is exclusion defined by it as crime, and THAT IQ societies penalty is usually confinement of some sort, or a classified system of seperation from an elitist sector.