Would you equate smart with intelligent?

I agree with bstinson on the theory of Howard Gardner. There are multiple intelligences, there are 7; the following: 1. Linguistic intelligence: a sensitivity to the meaning and order of words. 2. Logical-mathematical intelligence: ability in mathematics and other complex logical systems. 3. Musical intelligence: the ability to understand and create music. Musicians, composers and dancers show a heightened musical intelligence. 4. Spatial intelligence: the ability to "think in pictures," to perceive the visual world accurately, and recreate (or alter) it in the mind or on paper. Spatial intelligence is highly developed in artists, architects, designers and sculptors. 5. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: the ability to use one's body in a skilled way, for self-expression or toward a goal. Mimes, dancers, basketball players, and actors are among those who display bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. 6. Interpersonal intelligence: an ability to perceive and understand other individuals -- their moods, desires, and motivations. Political and religious leaders, skilled parents and teachers, and therapists use this intelligence. 7. Intrapersonal intelligence: an understanding of one's own emotions. Some novelists and or counselors use their own experience to guide others. Then, Gardner identified an eighth intelligence, the naturalist intelligence. Then, Gardner identified an eighth intelligence, the naturalist intelligence. This refers to the ability to recognize and classify plants, minerals, and animals, including rocks and grass and all variety of flora and fauna. The ability to recognize cultural artifacts like cars or sneakers may also depend on the naturalist intelligence? So if you know this, anyone can be intelligent in a certain area. Smart however, I link more to knowing a lot of facts and being able to use them in your daily live. So not just bookwisdom but knowing how to use it to help yourself and others with it.

I've always said that "being smart" is knowing a lot of things and "being intelligent" is knowing how to use those things effectively, being able to put across what you know to somebody else and the ability to think things through in more detail.

When I say I value "intelligence", I don't mean someone's ability to score an A in a test (because anyone with a good memory could technically do that), but rather someone's knowledge. They don't have to know a book cover to cover to be what I consider intelligent. Intelligence is being able to hold a conversation of substance, to hold interest and to know about what you're talking about. I think that everyone uses different terms to mean the same things. =)

I honestly would not equate smartness with intelligence. This is because smartness is usually associated with skills such as looking at a particular problem, and breaking it down, and then building it back up. Honestly, someone can be intelligent in more then one subject manner. An example of this would be Gardner's multiple intelligences. In this, he simply explains that people, as I said earlier, can be intelligent in more then one area of their life. For instance, the all time great basketball player Michael Jordan, can be considered a genius when it comes to the intelligences of movement, but considered "mentally handicapped" when it comes to another intelligences, for example, lingustics. And the vis versa of that would be someone like Edgar Allen Poe. He is someone who is a genius when it comes to lingusits, but I am almost positive was not the best basketball player to ever grace where he lived.

Yes, i agree with you. I am very intelligent, can retain lots of knowledge, have a great learning capacity, and am a great problem solver. However, I do not know a lot of facts off of the top of my head. I hope I didnt just come across as being full of myself, sorry if I did. Anyways, I think a lot of people know how to "play school" but that doesnt necessarily mean they are smart. They are just hard workers, so I think that when you ask who is smarter, the person who has a greater IQ is smarter than the person who studies. Maybe the person who studies has common sense, but that is a different level of intelligence. I dont think intelligence is a black and white subject, though.

I agree with you. Smartness doesnot relate to intelligence. I think that you are intelligent and the pople who got the A's were smarter. Smartness means the way you deal with any problem, the method you follow etc. Smartness does not mean knowledge. Knowledge is a different area altogether. It has a relation to wisdom. Wisdom comes with knowledge. You can be wise but not smart or intelligent.

It all depends on the definition of 'smart' which varies with each usage. Sometimes smart can be things like street smarts or business instinct, not related to 'intelligence' at all. Also, memorising 'knowledge' for an exam does not mean you are intelligent. Somebody could just memorise the whole textbook and do awesomely in the exam, but not really understand what they rote-learned or be able to apply it in a different non-straightforward way. Intelligence is about potential capabilities, I think.