Schools deem a child smart when that child excels at tasks that the school assigns to them. I've those tasks were simply to read and add. Then those tasks inclu

Schools deem a child smart when that child excels at tasks that the school assigns to them. I've those tasks were simply to read and add. Then those tasks included writing and remembering. What tasks do schools demand of children today? It seems that intelligence is a term that we apply to people who consistently excel at the mental tasks assigned to them, no matter what those tasks entail.