After getting back from my trip down Rt. 66 I was catching up on my TIME Magazines. One article was quite interesting. “Failing Our Geniuses.” Ain’t this the truth. – The article points out, we spend ten times as much on the students who are below average as on those who are above. – Now I’m not saying we should spend less on the below average children, but that we should be spending more, much, much more on the above average children. Hey folk, these are the kids who will grow up to discover, invent & create all those things you really will like and want. Without nurturing our geniuses we will be much poorer. – The US needs more “Davidson Academies.” Are such schools elitist? Probably so, but exactly what is wrong with nurturing the elite? I’m not all that in favor of equality when it means that everyone MUST be the same. This usually insures that everyone will be equally ignorant. – I’m all in favor of having schools where you have to be very much above average to get in. I don’t see these same complainers asking Stanford, MIT, Un. of Chicago, and even state universities to have an open door policy to enrollment. Should a person with an IQ well below average enter so they can waste time, effort and money on them? – The US should be spending 10 times as much supporting really smart kids as on helping the dumb ones. – Of course, the US don’t really want to spend money on education in the first place. It doesn’t give back a profit within 90 days. – Yes, I’m an elitist and proud of it. If it weren’t for “geeks” and “nerds,” all those “normal” folk would have to think up ways to amuse themselves on their own.
