Knowledge? How do we get it?

Maybe, some of you are wondering and asking about that "why other people are smart while others are not?" Well, I believe that character and intelligence are not only inherited nor inborn as what has plato said.

 It's because even you inherits the intelligence of your parents, maybe you inherit the intelligence but.. the knowledge are not! If you always depending the intelligence you have without taking experience, the knowledge you have will not increase and will remains the same. Unlike the people whom even didn't inherits the intelligence of his parents but willing to learn and take advantage, competing other people he will gain more knowledge and can help him to achieve his dreams in life. As what as John Locke said.. that the mind is "tabula rasa" or blank slate at birth, and the most knowledge comes from experience. 

In that statement we can conclude that people are equal at first but the one who are willing to learn are the one who success.