About intelligence, genius, and future [Archives:2007/1052/Opinion]
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh
Hi people! Please come to shift away from political talks and these talks' allegations that bring about trouble, grief, and despair. The subject, which is my main point of interest this week, is a short news story published by an Arab newspaper in counted words under the heading 'Five genius people of the German intelligent population.'
Details of the story come as follows: “The Intelligent People Club in Germany announced that the number of its members increased over the past ten years with the genius people numbering 5,000. As part of the annual conference, the club attributed the increased number of its members to the increasing intelligence rates.”
A question raised by such a news story is that “How many intelligent people clubs are there in the Arab countries? Despite the fact that the answer is 'nothing', other questions are expected to emerge in the same frame such is “Why don't the Arab universities establish similar clubs in their faculties and work on exploring the intelligent students according to the evaluation results?
Actually, the Arab universities don't care about the talented and intelligent students enrolled in different departments. We are like other human beings. We are not different from them and they are not different form us except for providing facilities and enabling intelligent people to assert themselves and play a prominent role in serving their communities. As Arabs, we ignore the genius and gifted people and let the chance explore them.
The Arab countries are full of intelligent people.Also, throughout history, these nations have been a store to scientific, literary, and artistic geniuses and they only lack organization and concentration on the exploration of talents in different majors.
Through my long experience of teaching at the university, I have been exploring strong talents that need good living and an intelligent people club. If the two things were provided, we would benefit from the available geniuses in various scientific and literary specializations.
I wonder who can change the fate of those genius people and draw their attention from the daily life, as well as exploit their abilities for things other than what the less-gifted ones can do. Is it possible that the Arab states will have a club for genius people in order for these states to benefit from those people in overcoming backwardness and other consequences caused by disasters, catastrophes, wars, and conflicts of the past few years.
I have a question, and hope, that tens and hundreds of those interested in the affairs of Arab states share with me in raising. The question is related with the necessity of work with the aim of changing their poor situations through scientific cognitive approaches, far away from exaggerations, adventures, and exercising the trade of futile and useless slogans, that cannot find their place even in the market of stupid people.
It is logical that the human intelligence is what made the signs of surprising development experienced by the contemporary life. It is also made us have a breakfast in Sana'a, a lunch in Washington, and a supper in Tokyo or Beijing. Additionally, it supplied us with the facilities that made distances closer to us. Thanks to the clever mind, all the vision barriers were removed via satellites and other means of information technology.
The stupid people are the only ones who attempt to destroy these abilities or exploit them for serving their personal interests and dreams, which are really nightmares standing in the way of kind people.
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh is Yemen's prominent poet and intellectual. He is the director of the Yemeni Center for Studies
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