Ryan's scheme will push (hopefully not break) the intellectual aptitude of what has recently been an embarrassingly undisciplined defense.
Up to $50,000 is offered for supposedly top-drawer characteristics, including height, blond hair and intellectual aptitude.
If you notice, none of the keys to overcoming adversity involve academic pursuit or intellectual aptitude.
Just as theorists must take account of various nonideal factors, such as the existence of deeply entrenched social inequalities within society as we know it, so too must we take account of the fact that most people in society lack the time, inclination, and perhaps the intellectual aptitude to engage in rigorous philosophical theorizing.
However, other intellectual aptitude tests have been shown previously not to predict long-term progress in medicine at other institutions [ 6].
Intellectual aptitude at the other end only takes us so far.
Come prepared with a succinct introduction, describing intellectual passions, academic aptitudes, extracurricular interests, career aspirations and issues of special concern before turning to course selection.
Intellectual and active aptitude were to be tested through an examination process, though this would come to naught if the appointed official did not possess the appropriate moral aptitude (1838 43, IX, 128).
However, Schofield's "not good at it" stance seems to suggest that drug taking demands intellectual prowess, nay, an aptitude for drug-taking that he simply did not possess.
The noughties, Masters explains, are today's new graduates, lost between eras, the eternal students who finished school at the pinnacle of a craze for higher education, resolute in their belief that, regardless of aptitude or intellectual curiosity, one ought to go to university – anywhere, and to study anything.
