"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head." ― Alexander Pope Topic(s): Intelligence More From Alexander Pope "Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw." "Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use." "Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot." More In Intelligence "I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head."― Rafik Hariri "We’re first on executions. We’re 49th in funding public education. We’re in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we’re winning."― Kinky Friedman "Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages."― Daniel Goleman