 Intelligence can be interpreted differently according to what you have studied and where you have studied. Intelligence from my perspective just represents the minimum of the maximum capacity of each individual. I believe that a GPA does not reflect human’s ingenuity, nor capacity nor intelligence, instead it just reflects the quality of the imparted education. It has to be said the all humans learn differently, but in my opinion up to this time we do not how to instruct appropriately or deliver the knowledge to someone who hasn’t been taught to how receive it. However, I have no other choice but to ask common question in order to obtain a significant evidence in order to support my claim. My claim is simple, all humans count with the same brain capacity, so anyone can be the next Einstein. Through this survey I can look to facts such as Race, Age, Gender and the most important for my topic the GPA with relation of the time spent on higher education. The questions are simple, but the way I will direct the answers can be a significantly important to support my claim. Therefore, I encourage you to be part of this survey and help me support my claim. I will publish my paperwork, once I am done with it.  Up to this moment the information I’ve gathered is inconsistent. All participants come from a different ethnic background and have different outcomes.
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 As undergraduate student observation has been my primary source of evidence, and through comparing and looking in detail to the educational system in the United States I have come to the conclusion that instead of fixing the educational system to improve the education in individuals they extend the academic pathway followed by a MD or PhD. And after all those discoveries that science do and new terminology is created, what would be next after PhD?
One of the most profound questions asked in the field on neuroscience is how much capacity does our human brain have to acquire knowledge, is it finite or infinite? In his book, The New Brain, Richard Restak infers that all brains are biologically homogeneous, but that performance of our brains is more related to environmental and formal stimulation. He acknowledges that stimulating our brains intellectually is the most important function in determining intellectual capacity and cognitive development. Based in part on this acknowledgement, this discussion follows the line of thought of Dr. Restak and expand on the subject of intellectual acquisition based on the primary factor of brain stimulation utilizing the most current research based on the concept of neuroplasticity and other environmental factors that contribute cognitive development. Recent research in school performance continues to show a decline in the intellectual capacity of middle and high school students, even though kids are in school an average of four days a week and study an average of 17 years before entering higher education institutions. By most accounts, the education system in the United States, to the detriment of most pedagogical research, is not producing high intellectual capacity and knowledge in high school graduates. In fact, most high school graduates lack the preparedness to successfully perform in higher education. The new Common Core Standards, developed by the Department of Education and adopted by most state governors is an attempt to revert this trend. The problem of intellectual attainment is even worse for certain minority groups. Now this is not coincidence, it is directly related to the infusion of knowledge to develop intellectual capacity. All human beings are born with the same biological brain, therefore intellectual attainment is more a fact of extensive brain stimulation in intellectual areas, and not deficiencies based on culture or race. In addition to the research conducted by Dr Restak, Nick Van Dam director and chief learning officer in global talent for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and founder-chairman of the e-Learning for Kids Foundation, in his article “Inside the Learning Brain” provides an overall overview of improving the learning techniques by the intervention of neuroscience. Active engagement, focused attention, deployment of short learning sessions are some of the points that he explains are fundamental for a better learning. Neuroscience in conclusion, is fundamental for the better learning and creation of a better educational system model.  In technology Neuro-Networking would be a model system of programs and data structures that approximates the operation of the human brain, but this time I would like to make emphasis in the capacity that human would be able to achieve with the appropriate linking of one thought and another. The human brain is the most complex organ-machine in the world and can rapidly create synapses giving as result: Intelligence, or can slowly create those synapses giving the opposite result. Intelligence or knowledge are those linked (neurons) subjects that we learn, and that goes from the first steps to walk, up to solving a calculus problem. if humans were able to create a very complex machine like it is the computer, then that means the brain is a greater complex machine. Is important to look into the synapses between neurons to understand clearly or at least have an approximate idea of how the brain behaves. The knowledge acquired through the years is storage as information in these brain cells, the neurons. It has been said, or at least what I have heard, that neurons can be damage or die with the use of narcotics, but neurons can also die for being unused. The phrase “use your brain” has a strong meaning when we look into the science behind it, for that reason the more one use the brain the greater outcomes one will have.  It is always amazing to see the stars in a dark night with an open sky. The beauty of universe delights the pupil of the eye, and it shows the countless questions of this perfect creation. A same universe happens to be in your brain, full of starts that illuminate when an interconnection happen. These stars call neurons are specialized on carrying information through an electrochemical process. The human brain has approximately 100 billion neurons. There are three types of neurons:  There are three basic parts of a neuron:
-dendrites -cell body - axon Although, all neurons vary somewhat in size, shape, and characteristics depending on the function and role of the neuron. Some neurons have few dendritic branches, while others are highly branched in order to receive a great deal of information. Some neurons have short axons, while others can be quite long. The longest axon in the human body extends from the bottom of the spine to the big toe and averages a length of approximately three feet. The functional classification of the neurons is based on the direction that neurons conduct impulses. Sensory or afferent neurons conduct impulses from sensory receptors into the nervous system. Motor or efferent neurons conduct impulses out of the nervous system to different organ such as muscles, glands, etc. There are two types of motor neurons: Somatic and Autonomic. |
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