Intelligent family - this term is very common, but its meaning is so blurred that the edges are simply lost. What defines "intelligence"? How can a decent family earn the right to wear this title? Can the family of a businessman or a worker be called intelligent? What are the criteria for intelligence? You will learn about this and much more from our article.
Intelligents - who are they, in scientific terms?
The definition of the intelligentsia is as follows: this is the category of people who are professionally engaged in mental work, the development of culture and its dissemination, who have higher education.
This group includes businessmen, military, scientists, engineers, people in senior positions, officials, as well as teachers, doctors, artists, journalists, etc. From this we can conclude that if you were brought up in a family in which one of Parents belong to these categories, which means you are a graduate of an intelligent family.
Curved Parallels
But here it is often said that a scythe flies on a stone. Not always a businessman or a person in a responsible post can have a higher education. For example, the family of a deputy of the regional Duma is a priori intelligent, but often people with no higher education are elected to a responsible position. As well as a person who has two higher, he can work at a construction site with simple plasterer. Does this mean that now his family is not intelligent?
And on which side to “parallelize” a decent programmer family? Programmers are all self-taught, without education. Often they do not even finish 11 classes. But their mental work will be abruptly better than that of many military men. And such inconsistencies are a dime a dozen.
Intellectuals by origin
Earlier, if you were born into a noble family, then your future family was already “doomed” in absentia to be intelligent. Now, if you yourself come from a family of, say, hereditary military men, but decided to go to work at the plant as a worker, then your family will no longer belong to this category. Now, in order for your children to be brought up in an intelligent family, you have to marry a girl from the above cohort. But what if your wife is a businessman who does not have a higher, but is subordinate to a dozen people, and she pays them a monthly salary? Is your family now intelligent or not?
As you can see, the scientific method for determining the "intelligence" of the family is not always suitable, and therefore in life for this you have to operate with completely different criteria.
How to assess the level of "intelligence" in life
People are used to judging it as follows. The “story of my family” from the speaker’s lips is usually not taken into account, whatever intellectuals in his family. Everyone is judged by the style of modern life. If a person has a well-paid job (even if it’s a job as a welder somewhere in a locomotive depot or a driller somewhere in the north), if his children, at least from the words of neighbors and teachers, are well-educated, the house is well-groomed, tidy and looks to look presentable, then a person is an intellectual.
People from the outside do not look at higher education. They look at the man’s behavior in society, at how he expresses himself, keeps himself in public, and admits swear words in his speech. What car he drives, how he cares for her, how he treats his soulmate and children. Does it follow the children? Does it keep them in check? Does he finally educate them, or does the street educate them?
And this applies to both spouses. But for the most part, the emphasis is, of course, on the man. If the wife is the boss in the house, and the final word is always hers, if the work that brings more income is her prerogative, that's okay. The main thing is that the family always has order at home, that the spouses always find a common language, do not take out “dirty linen in public,” and seemingly present a presentable couple.
The "story of my family" as such does not play a role here. A person may have at least princes in his family, but if now he is mired in drunkenness or other bad habits, he will not turn his tongue into an intellectual.
The difference between intellectuals and intellectuals
But do not think that if you seem to be an intellectual, you will be so in essence. After a few minutes of communication with you, any person who is more or less knowledgeable in the “social network” will be able to figure out you. A true intellectual should be him in everything. In clothes, in lifestyle, in the ability to stay in public, in the commitment to observe the cultural values of the family and in communication, including.
But do not confuse intellectuals with intellectuals. You can be arbitrarily proficient in mathematics, philosophy, or deduction, but if your mind and ability to keep yourself in public in an intelligent manner diverge, you are far from being an intellectual. On this occasion, the famous Russian writer Mikhail Weller spoke very well:
"An intellectual - unlike just an intellectual with a conscience and good intentions - is a person with a specific worldview: he professes and declares the primacy of morality over the truth in all cases when they do not coincide. And since in the life of our real and many-sinful idea it is always dirty with imperfect execution "morality and truth never completely coincide. And the intellectual, exposing and censuring the being, preaches the due."
Conclusion
From all of the above, we can conclude about which family can be called intelligent. This can be called any family living in abundance, in which children are well-educated, and parents are well-off, that is, have a well-paid job.
If parents keep up with the times, use advanced gadgets, show awareness of current world and domestic politics, communicate in a competent language and always have their own point of view on any matter, their family is without any doubt intelligent, regardless of whether they graduated from college , and also they are engaged or not engaged in mental work professionally.