Idiocy or otherwise isn't really about intelligence; it's about a willingness to learn as opposed to a stubborn closed-minded insistence that one's position is the only right one and it's the rest of the world that's out of step with you.
My Forever Princess had rather a problematic education, with the result that she quite often doubted her own abilities in certain areas, particularly maths, areas in which she had received little to no education. Consequently she would at times berate herself for being "stupid" simply because she didn't know things. I'm proud to say that I was able to correct this misapprehension she had of her own abilities, as she was one of the most intelligent people I have ever been privileged to know and would always surprise you by approaching a situation from the most unexpected directions. As I always said to her, just because a person might not know a thing does not in itself make them stupid. Stupid is not a lack of education; stupid is not wanting to learn.
My Forever Princess had rather a problematic education, with the result that she quite often doubted her own abilities in certain areas, particularly maths, areas in which she had received little to no education. Consequently she would at times berate herself for being "stupid" simply because she didn't know things. I'm proud to say that I was able to correct this misapprehension she had of her own abilities, as she was one of the most intelligent people I have ever been privileged to know and would always surprise you by approaching a situation from the most unexpected directions. As I always said to her, just because a person might not know a thing does not in itself make them stupid. Stupid is not a lack of education; stupid is not wanting to learn.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
