How Are You Intelligent?

I was listening to "The Element" again this morning while exercising (I works perfectly now, so I think fate was leading me back to listening to it again). Ken Robinson make an interesting distinction between asking, "How intelligent are you?" and "How are you intelligent?". The first question assumes that there are limits to intelligence and that they can and should be quantified. The second assumes that everyone has intelligence and does not make any assumptions about limits. I plan to ask the first question about intelligence on my first day of my web development class. I want the students to begin to question the assumption about how we discuss, measure and limit the intelligence of others. Then, I want to use the entire year, to help them find their own intelligence and express it in beautiful ways. Is that utopian? Maybe, nevertheless, it is a goal worth pursuing.