Vocabulary learning, with people's ability to use context to add to their knowledge base, is an important skill in intelligent behavior. The goal of education is to promote higher level thinking by teaching for successful intelligence. Education needs to capitalize on individual strengths while working toward improvement of their weaknesses through analytical, creative, and practical instruction. Following this Triarchic Theory of Intelligence will provide students with skills and abilities for higher level thinking and real life success. Knowledge is a form of intelligence.
Intelligence is redefined to incorporate practical knowledge.
Knowledge is the ability to think and learn within new conceptual systems. Intelligence is a mental activity involved in purposive adaptation to, shaping of, and selection of real-world environments relevant to one's life. Knowledge is mental self-management. A system's intelligence can only be viewed relative to its belief system. A sign of intelligence is not ever making mistakes, but rather learning from those mistakes so that they are not made again and again.