Based on a lot of different people's descriptions of what being smart is, I feel even dumber. Can anyone explain why everyone's definition of smart seems to revolve around only knowledge? On Bloom's Taxonomy, knowledge is the lowest level of thinking. Analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating are much higher level. And even beyond that, why doesn't creative thinking count for as much or more than just knowing things? Just because you know things, doesn't mean you know how to use it or how it fits into the context of everything else. I don't have as many facts memorized as other people, but why should I need to when I have the world's knowledge a google search away (or worst case scenario, at the library)?