Nature plays its part, but school nurtures your brain even better | Torsten Bell

A survey finds that the longer we spend being educated the more intelligent we'll be for the rest of our lives

Do years in school make you smarter or do smarter people just stay at school for longer?

There's a strong correlation between our IQ scores and the time we spend in education, so consistent with either possibility. But the implications for education policies are different: if education raises our intelligence we should want more of it than if it just gives us specific skills or knowledge.

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