Hello everyone,
I can't help but contemplate seemingly mundane and innocuous topics, but there is one I can't seem to shake or mitigate at the moment.
Input is appreciated!
While IQ testing is recent, "intellectual giftedness"--or the quest for knowledge and answers amongst extremely intelligent individuals--is not. My question is this:
Given that religious individuals and wealthy males were the only ones receiving an "education" in the medieval era, how did the remainder of uneducated and likely impoverished --yet gifted and curious individuals--fare? What did they do and how did they overcome their lack of education? What did these people do to educate themselves?
How was this different in ancient times (i.e. Sumeria, Egypt, Rome, Greece, etc.)
Forgive my endless questioning. Any thoughts?
