Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. (Jean Piaget)

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Jean Piaget

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