Originally Posted by Ubin Timore

Thinking about high school has got me wondering about the whole class system most (if not all schools) have. It's always the smart kids that get picked on the most, if you go through any type of school the intelligent kids are always looked down upon. I don't know weather it's just here in Oregon but most of the students that attend my high school seem to think that being smart is dumb and if you value education you should be ridiculed for it. I'm really appalled by English class. Most of the students are either failing or they have C average. I'm in a country that is supposed to be built on an English system of language and they're failing it???
I don't know weather it's jealousy or resentment but being intelligent in school is for some reason looked down upon. I usually get A's and B's on my report card and I know a lot of facts that I've heard on the TV or in a book and my friends jokingly tease me about being too smart, but I don't really see anything wrong with it. Being smart should be the only way to survive in life. If you look at how animals are in their environment it's usually the less intelligent, weak, disabled or oldest one that gets killed. Brain power is a vital thing and I don't think someone should be prosecuted for being intelligent. And yet it feels like the American population is getting less intelligent everyday maybe even the world’s population is getting dumber.
There is no way for humanity to take intelligence seriously since there are no actual predators for humans to outsmart.
Would you think that in this time of age humanity has become less intelligent, and will we continue to get dumber if talented youths are being ridiculed about how smart they are?