You come across as a pretty intelligent person...right up until the point
where you criticize the President's intelligence. You've applied a
one-trait litmus test to Bush, and have determined that because he mangles
words while speaking in public, he must be a dunce. In a
one-trait-litmus-test world, some might say that a high school dropout
qualifies as a dunce, too.

Intelligence is a personal quality, somewhat like talent. You don't become more
"intelligent" by going to school, nor does graduating from a course of study
indicate that the one is more intelligent than those who did not pursue the
same course.

You confuse "educated" with "intelligent".

Education may help a person maximize his or her native intelligence. Education
may help a person be better informed.
Take your own case, for example. You are no more "intelligent" now than you
were before you went to dental school- but you are a hell of a lot more
informed about dentistry. Compare yourself to an individual who studied physics
rather than dentistry- that person will know a lot less about dentristry than
you will and you will know less about physics. Which of you is more or less
intelligent? Does a DDS trump a PhD in physics? Always?

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