Thanks Deborah, you are right, the education system across the entire Western world is a mess really. And define intelligence, that is a question and a half, I always think of it like this, how intelligent you are can be defined by your ability to understand and digest the information you are given and use it to make smart decisions based upon that information.
However, the information you get will define your actual intelligence level, so somebody really intelligent, if they are given poor intelligence, can seem not that bright. But on the flipside, somebody of average intelligence, given good intelligence, can seem super bright.
The problem that we have at current is as you say, there is so much information out there, a lot of it rubbish information, many people even amongst the most intelligent of them all, are filled with poor intelligence a.k.a. poor educations.
This is creating chaos because it is leading to a world where even the most intelligent people at times are spreading idiocy simply because the intelligence they have studied, is not good intelligence.
This is why I’m such a big advocate for revolutionising the education system and getting it back on track by making certain it gives kids the intelligence they need for this new world.