I have met a man and he has asked me the following question: From who/what are learning the people? Then he has asked from who/what are learning the smart people? And finally he has asked me from who/what are learning the most intelligent people?
Okey, I think the both opinions are correct, but let me take you to a journey back in the time where a lot of innovators and founders have created or thought of something new
In the first moment, they have been pointed as a people who have mental disabilities because of what they were suggesting. Later on we all are speaking for such people as a geniuses.
But from where have they studied? That's the question. As some of you may have heard the famous Steve Job's phrase "Stay hungry Stay foolish". On the first place they have kept their will to learn and know more. On the other hand, they have perceived themselves as fools (someone who doesn't understand something or doesn't know something or doesn't want to accept it). Another interesting phrase, "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." from Einstein.
A lot of the people who were later mentioned as geniuses, have found the last peace of the puzzle in the words of ordinary people or in the most foolish people, There are a lot of situations where someone who doesn't have any idea of something has said such words that for him they don't make sense but for someone else they are the cornerstone.
So to sum up, in my opinion the most intelligent people are also learning from the most foolish people.
As well as they are learning from their own dreams.