Re: No Genius Left Behind

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob LeChevalier  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hanover Fist) wrote:
>>People with 160 IQs already get a boatload of special funding if
>>they're identified. This groups is also quite small, since it only
>>accounts for about one percent of the population. Pouring most of your
>>energy into educating one percent of the population, to the detriment
>>of the other 99%, is a bad idea and an ingredient in the recipe for
>>disaster.

>Not to mention revolution, since the 99% won't appreciate their tax
>money going to pay for the 1%, while ignoring their own children
>(using MMD's false assumption that IQ is purely genetic for
>convenience).

In the 19th century, and the early part of the 20th, there
was little objection to having college for the bright.  

It is not necessary to provide that much in resources for 
the geniuses; do not hold them back, and there are many
ways for this, which was deliberately undermined during
the 20th century by the educationists.
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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
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