Mistaking lack of experience with stupidity is stupid.
Intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom are three different things. Knowledge is what you learn from observation, books, schools or from people. Intelligence guides how well you use your knowledge. This is the teenage stage, where you are now; then as you keep going you develop more and more wisdom. Wisdom is what you learn from using knowledge with your intelligence, it's from personal experience, everyone has their own wisdom. Intelligence again guides how well you use your wisdom to generate new knowledge and put that to use. And so on...
Right now I'm sharing my wisdom with you, but to you it is knowledge. It will only become wisdom once you experience it and realize it for yourself, if ever. But even then it will be different, it will be your wisdom.
As teenagers you're just realizing this cycle and it's empowering, but you are not truly wise. Not yet. But you're getting there every day, just keep the cycle going.
It's true that your amount of knowledge does not necessarily determine your Intelegence, but I think that having a complete disregard for the world around you and the learning opportunities you ate presented with is it's own kind of stupid.
True. It's called willful ignorance and smart people are perfectly capable of it. Learning is hard, particularly when it forces you to reconsider what you believe to be true.
There is a diference between lack of experience and Intelegence but those who are smart often seek out chances to learn and grow instead of sticking the their same views for no reason. Yes some teens are very smart while others are incredibly stupid, but then again the same goes for adults.
Intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom are three different things. Knowledge is what you learn from observation, books, schools or from people. Intelligence guides how well you use your knowledge. This is the teenage stage, where you are now; then as you keep going you develop more and more wisdom. Wisdom is what you learn from using knowledge with your intelligence, it's from personal experience, everyone has their own wisdom. Intelligence again guides how well you use your wisdom to generate new knowledge and put that to use. And so on...
Right now I'm sharing my wisdom with you, but to you it is knowledge. It will only become wisdom once you experience it and realize it for yourself, if ever. But even then it will be different, it will be your wisdom.
As teenagers you're just realizing this cycle and it's empowering, but you are not truly wise. Not yet. But you're getting there every day, just keep the cycle going.