It is normally said that students who love asking sensible questions are classified as intelligent. While most teachers view this as true, others can say that asking questions is a part of our human nature as what we normally does due to the activity of our brain that makes us curious in many things.

            The classroom is a place for studying and learning. It is a room for students who don’t know and know a little to learn more. When a teacher enters the classroom everyday for a maximum of one month, he already knows who is intelligent, who is talkative, who is good in computation, who has common sense, who is just silent, who is more active in recitation or who is just an active listener. In regular days of discussing, asking questions and students reciting in class there’ll always be a unique day that will surprise a teacher because his average student is asking him sensible questions and answering his questions with sensible and correct answers. This student is not good in language nor in written tests. He is not even good in creating beautiful projects. He is not even the type of a good performer in role playing. But he is better in asking questions than those belonging to top five. He is also good in connecting ideas with his series of questions. He is so good in common sense. He is right with his idea after he asks you a question and you ask the same question twice back to him. But our student here is the regular kind, most of the time late, with grades in most subjects are seventy-five above, with projects submitted later than the deadline but as teacher, you still have something to consider, his “good common sense” performance in class. Despite the things that describehim, he is the very active student inside the classroom.

            If intelligence becomes measurable in standardized and formative test, how will you explain the intelligence out of good common sense?

By: Ms.Ana Rosette S. Garcia, LPT | Jose Rizal Institute | Orion, Bataan