Money can't buy you Intelligence

Recently, I was listening to a radio programme in FM radio station Indigo in which the listeners were asked to answer their choice of preference between indefinite knowledge and money. I would most probably have chosen indefinite knowledge over money for two reasons. First of all, it is not certain if money would ever continue to remain as the medium for trade unless say money is defined beyond a mere specially designed piece of paper by the Government and it would mean inclusive of all that facilitates exchange of kind and good. If tomorrow the Government decided to ban all paper currency and coins, then money in such form would cease to have any value in the eye of law and consequently among common public. Secondly, as Darwin puts it, the earth evolves, obviously with the people living on it. That means; change becomes inherent to the evolution of mankind. Life expands, the need and expectations of people will increase incessantly and consequently there shall be more demand and thus it would create a necessity for equal supply which can’t be met with mere money without intelligence. On the other hand, the intelligence can cater to the need of the demanding public.

As I was listening, the listeners were sending in their answers both by SMS and phone calls. Unsurprisingly majority of them choose money over intelligence. They would rather feel comfortable sipping Scottish whisky and tasting Mexican dish at a Brazilian  restaurant by the seashore followed by a nice massage than to be sitting at the lab with their mind twisted as to what shall be their next invention or without even being inside a lab, think to decide how they should shape up their lives. But what I found unacceptable was what was stated by those who chose money, i.e. " with money, they believe they can buy intelligence "

This I strongly object. Such a statement invited me to poke my nose into the rationale of those people. Intelligence is not something similar to a pizza or burger to buy with money. A lady attempted to amplify such statement by saying with money one can get an admission in a good educational institution. I agree but I disagree with her notion that a good educational institution would bestow intelligence upon an individual. Intelligence is not like the degree to confer it on someone. If it is so how did the ancient scientist who contributed to the almost everything we enjoy in our material life had such intelligence. Were all of them studied in a good educational institution? Were there not a single scientist who was illiterate and never even knocked the door of a school? Or if strongly put, was there school and colleges at all that imposed heavy financial burden before imparting knowledge to its pupils.

While money may help a person to exist till his or her death, the intelligence, on the other hand, will guide one live. So I would not choose the money which is created out of intelligence of human over the intelligence which a man is born with unless he is mentally challenged and his brain does not develop beyond a certain stage to make him think normally.

Just like Beatles said “Money can’t buy love”, similarly Money can’t buy intelligence either.