Re: No Genius Left Behind

Roger Dodger wrote:
> 
> Bob LeChevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
> > Any evidence that Nobel prize winners are generally IQ 160 types, as
> > opposed to IQ 120 types who worked harder than usual and got lucky?
> 
> I'm more interested in "Motivational Quotient" or MQ, rather than
> IQ.  That is what separates Nobel prize winners and other genii
> from ordinary folk.  Richard Feyman supposedly had an average IQ,
> but he worked like a demon to become a top physicist.
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Complete Baloney. 
And genii is NOT the plural. The Latin base is 4th declension,
NOT 2nd!

 
> > Can a single Nobel prize be earned without an army of more ordinary
> > people growing the food he eats, building the lab equipment, educating
> > his children, and taking out the trash he generates?
> >
> > I think not.
> 
> I agree.  That's why we need to give everyone their chance, and not
> force them all to be the same.  Unfortunately, too many educational
> authorities see a 6 year old child with an "unhealthy" interest in
> science as a monster, and they forcibly "broaden his mind", and in
> the process ruin his scientific talents.
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No they don't, how stupid!!
Steve