Your argument is hardly related to what he presented. Intelligence is almost defined by your innate ability to learn, not by your actual acquired skills and abi

Your argument is hardly related to what he presented. Intelligence is almost defined by your innate ability to learn, not by your actual acquired skills and abilities or knowledge. His example showed you can make a group of motivated students very skilled and knowledgeable in calculus. He wasn't raising their IQ. However, I'm pretty sure I could find studies pointing to a raise in whatever intelligence metric for those with a college education (specially mathematics or physics heavy) versus a control group that went on to menial jobs. Actually I'll just post the first few Google hits (only glanced by they severely contradict your claims): 1) http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/5/1362.full http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/5/1362.full Causal relation between education and intelligence metrics observed 2) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00312.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.... Correlation between education attainment and IQ --- Moreover, there's the even more glaring correlation (and causal relationship) between success and higher educational attainment, specially in technical fields, where obviously you need a lot of hard to learn knowledge, skills and general ability to learn (that is, I also dispute your claim that education has no effect on ability to learn). I can ellaborate and dig more if someone is interested/skeptical.