Re: No Genius Left Behind

MIB529 wrote:
> 
> "R. Steve Walz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > No Child Left Behind - You give all the kiddees a standardized test
> > >                        and single out all the LOOZerz for special
> > >                        funding and treatment....
> > >                                       (flushing money down the toilet)
> > >
> > > I think we need a NGLB program:
> > > No Genius Left Behind - You give all the kidees a standardized test
> > >                         and single out all the *Winners* for for
> > >                         specialized funding and treatment.
> > >                                      (get serious return for the money)
> > >
> > > Bob says the Constitution requires equal treatment under the law.
> > > If the NCLB qualifies as "equal treatment" then so does the NGLB.
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> > Nope. It's one vote per person, not per genius.
> 
> I should hope not. I've seen the early IQ tests. Five of the eight
> sections required knowledge of numbers. (This was a century ago.)
> 
> Also, there's no way to test the creative part of the brain.
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Garbage.


> But
> well...Niels Bohr would be fairly right-brained. At least compared to
> Einstein. What about Erwin Schrodinger? Yet subatomic particles still
> exist, and they still behave so unpredictably.
> 
> An interesting thing ignored by Yerkes's tests in the Army: Northern
> blacks beat Southern whites.
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Now why don't I doubt that??

 
> Perhaps better than 'generic intelligence' (i.e., a genius), we should
> focus on specific parts of the brain.
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Now if we only understood what they did.

 
> > > WTF is the difference?
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> > If you don't know, then you're not a genius and by NGLB you're
> > unfit to be trying to even THINK publically, let alone lead.
> >
> > Genius is undemocratic, and everyone who believes it excludes them
> > will gang up to destroy NGLB, and good riddance.
> 
> Which is why Bush called his plan 'no child left behind', even though
> it basically meant no rich child.
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Yup.
Steve