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Saturday, October 13th, 2007...3:49 pm

Educational Achievement Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Intelligence

The Associated Press reports on Secretary of State Rice’s visit to Mosocw and her lecture to the Russians on the subject of democracy. Rice, one of Bush’s “mother hens” is, surely, one of few who doesn’t recognize the humor of a “unified executive”Bush administration official lecturing anyone on the subject of democracy and justice.

“‘In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development,’ Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.

“‘I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma,” said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament.’”

Dr. Rice, as you know, earned a PhD related to her studies of the Soviet Union. She and Paul Wolfowitz, both apparently fairly widely considered brilliant, are currently relevant illustrations of the fact that academic success in no way is related to intelligence.

Rice’s and Wolfowitz’s impressive academic achievements, it seems to me, are more a result of achievement motivations instilled by their parents, rather than innate intelligence.

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