Are Elves stupid in Dungeons & Dragons?

I wanted to call this "Pathfinder Elves are retarded" but that would be too insulting. And I'm not insulting Elves or Dungeons & Dragons. However Elves in D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder have a severe learning disability. The tables are the same in 3.5 Player's handbook, the 3.5 SRD (file: Basic Rules/Description.rtf), and the Pathfinder SRD:

Race	Adulthood	Intuitive	Self-Taught	Trained
Human	15 years	+1d4	+1d6	+2d6
Elf	110 years	+4d6	+6d6	+10d6
diff	733 1/3 %	400-600%	600%	500%
Half-orc	14 years	+1d4	+1d6	+2d6

Based on this the average class modifier is Elf_Age = Human_Age * 5. The adulthood Elf_Age = Human_Age * (7 + 1/3) which could be rounded down to 5 for an adulthood age of 75. You'll notice that half-orcs reach adulthood the fastest and elves the slowest which means that half-orcs learn and mature 7.86 times faster than elves. Despite this some elves gets +2 Int and half-orcs in 3.5 get -2 Int.

Do you have any idea how damaging this slow learning is to the setting? Let's say I'm a human training in wizard school and I meet a stereotypical hot elf girl. We started school at the same time and I don't mind her current age so I make moves on her and start dating. Wizard school is a hard 7 year program that's not uncommon to flunk a few years. My elf lady isn't doing so well in class so I can give her private lessons of things I've already learned or we can practice the same thing together. After 7 years I've been ready for our relationship to advance to the next level for a while now but she's only getting warmed up to the idea of a long term relationship (she doesn't mind that she'll outlive me). I'm about to graduate from wizard school but she's flunked out 6 times and passed one year. I come to find out that the average time it takes an elf to graduate is 35 years! This is consistent with my experience that she's very slow to pick things up and I have to repeat things so many times. She's not an idiot it just takes a long time to learn something new. I simply can't invest that much of my life into someone so slow.

Can you name any other setting where elves are slow at learning magic? And half-orcs are fast at learning anything. It just doesn't fit. It does not make sense to base adulthood on the percent of maximum life. Learning should be based on Int alone and not race at all:

Int Mod	Adulthood	Intuitive	Self-Taught	Trained
less	not possible for player characters, and animals can't take classes
-4	17 years	23 +1d4	27 +1d6	35 +2d6
-3	16 years	21 +1d4	24 +1d6	30 +2d6
-2	16 years	19 +1d4	21 +1d6	25 +2d6
-1	15 years	17 +1d4	18 +1d6	20 +2d6
+0	15 years	14 +1d4	14 +1d6	14 +2d6
+1	14 years	15	14 +1d4	14 +1d10
+2	14 years	15	15	14 +1d8
+3	13 years	15	15	14 +1d6
+4	13 years	15	15	14 +1d4
more	13 years	15	15	15

Therefore if you have low intelligence and a short lifespan then you'll be very old by the time you could become a wizard. Note that these are minimum starting ages. You can choose to be older when you start learning but learning still takes time equal to the difference between adulthood and the applicable column.

Now let's look at maximum ages:

Race	Middle Age	Old	Venerable	Maximum Age
Human	35 years	53 years	70 years	+2d20 years
Elf	175 years	263 years	350 years	+4d% years
diff	500%	496.2264%	500%	200-1,000%

The average Elf_Age = Human_Age * 5. Why isn't the old elf age 265? Must be a typo that they didn't bother correcting. Also maximum elf age is way too random. How about:

Elf

175 years

265 years

350 years

550 +2d% years

Or better yet why not base maximum age on constitution rather than race so that how long you live actually depends on how healthy you are:

Con mod*	Middle Age	Old	Venerable	Maximum Age
less	already dead (since your constitution score would have to be less than 0)
-5	15 years	25 years	45 years	50+1d4 years
-4	20 years	30 years	50 years	55+1d4 years
-3	25 years	35 years	55 years	60+1d4 years
-2	30 years	40 years	60 years	65+1d6 years
-1	35 years	45 years	65 years	70+1d8 years
0	40 years	50 years	70 years	75+1d10 years
1	45 years	55 years	75 years	80+1d20 years
2	50 years	60 years	80 years	85+1d20 years
3	55 years	65 years	85 years	90+1d20 years
4	60 years	70 years	90 years	95+1d20 years
more	65 years	75 years	95 years	100+1d20 years

*con mod ignoring age penalties
After you have entered an age category, if you raise your con you will be in the same category but the categories above will change.
Elf racial ability: Very Long Life: your age categories except adulthood are multiplied by 5 (this doesn't affect starting ages). You have no Maximum Age.
Half-Elf racial ability: Long Life: your age categories except adulthood are multiplied by 3 (this doesn't affect starting ages).

There's not really any conclusion here. It's just that D&D didn't put much effort into the ages and I actually bothered correcting this.