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The words knowledge and intelligence are often defined as one in the same, however, it is important to recognize that knowledge is simply knowing facts while intelligence involves much more and is quite possibly more important. Intelligence contains the ability t ....

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.... is the highest thought process, “but these grade on thinkers are few and far between.” Golding’s article can be easily linked to Plato’s writing, The Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato declares, ‘let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.” He goes on to discuss men in a world of darkness who can only guess what the shadows are. The truly intelligent would see these shadows and formulate an idea as to what they are. A somewhat intelligent person or a grade two thinker would be the man that is brought into the light and enlightened. He then goes back and applies what he has seen toe the shadows and d ....