My intelligence has been frequently insulted by the following remark
""Who do you think you are? Einstein?"

Maths is not my bag
In that arena I do not think I am Einstein
nor do I think I am Babe Ruth in the baseball arena

But I do not think Einstein was more intelligent than I
Or Babe Ruth more physically accomplished than I
I can more or less guarantee that if any sportsman or any Mensa member
were stranded with me on a desert island
we would soon see how level the general intelligence quotient is
the simple fact is that we are all the collective survivors of 100,000 generations of human development
all born with the same basic mix of genes
and the same on-going survival potentials

In this general sense nobody is more intelligent than another
our different levels of natural expertise in the sciences and arts and crafts and sports
are related to a vastly complex system of natural selection related to our collectuive survival
each one of us is born with a specific ability that contributes to the evolution of the the psyche of the whole

This is an area of specific intelligence quotas and their inter-relationships that our education system
has barely begun to explore or make the best of
and while we continue to evaluate people at artificially elevated superior levels of intelligence
and reward them beyond others for a genius that rightfully belongs to the species as a whole
the evolution of the specie will continue to unnecessarily suffer all kinds of individual feelings of inferiority and collective depressions

Einstein's genius is pointless
if it is not related to the genius of the global culture that supports it
and that support is dependent on the genius of every soul keeping the specie from extinction

there is not a single worker in any field of social support
that is not born with the genius to excel at the labor he or she is assigned to

Einstein and the Joe the janitor
are born from the same original seed of intelligence
their General Intelligence Quotient
given the specific education opportunity related to their specific natural ability
is precisely equal

I'm sorry but teach in the public schools for a few years, and then tell me that all people have equal intellignce. I would agree that different people have different talents and abilities, but intellectually all people are NOT created equal.

Good points, I basicly agree, Please excuse my bias from my experience teaching. I also know that some students bad attitude toward school comes from the parents who do not value education.

Home Schooling may be a good choice in many cases, but I will say that there are some cases where the parents do not have the ability or the aptitude, and in a few cfases do not have the interest, to give the proper guidance to their children. There are some parents who have children but should NOT have had them, and these are the children who will fail without intervention and standardized education, which as bad as it is, is still better than nothing.

There is a store in my area that sells hand crafted items, imported from under developed or undeveloped countries. One of the lines that grates on my nerves is the phrase that they only sell items from "Fairly paid adult labor." When I questioned this the response was that the children should be in school. The problem is that in many of these countries there are no schools and the only way for the children to learn anything is at the side of the parents learning the trade or craft. By refusing to sell items that a child has helped to make they are denying that child the oportinity to learn, by hands-on experience, a craft with which they can earn a living in a remote area. I have seen similar comments on different subjects from people who seem to think that there is a school or store just arround the corner every where around the world. They don't seen to comprehend that there are some areas so remote that there is little or nothing avaliable to buy.

It would save the govts a massive amount of money
if they sponsored apprenticeships so that kids without
access to skills, can get the skills that they need.

Beyond primary school, its 95% useless content.

Rather get an A in primary school,
and then let the govt pay somebody to teach
that kid something useful.

In the world of I.T. and more and more other areas too,
the 20th century teaching methods
just no longer apply.

are skills like I.T. gender-specific?

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yes, absolutely.

but .... part of efficiency must be REAL intelligence (to be) activating a VOLUNTEERS teaching efforts.

when i volunteered to do teaching the union blocked it
because it would undermine the paid teachers
or some other such hooiey

~ this type of thing is a major impediment to education the world over
~ as well as business

how many times i've been told my proposal was the best but then
they choose the worst more expensive one because of blatant kickbacks

and its money donated by (quite likely) your govt that is getting corrupted
in kickbacks and other boondoggles

when people blindly throw money at education
they get corruption, which is far worse than mere illiteracy

if more 'dvelopment' money was in private hands,
then the money is more effective because it has to be accounted for

giving billions to one corrupt politician causes more problems than it solves,
but then thats the plot, eh?

yes, and more yes.

in order to be incorruptible, it seems you must live a poor life, yet somehow keep up a tremendous mental strength.

let it be said, for women this type of "dictatorship" is even worse!

Agreed, and I would equate a 'benevolent dictatorship' with 'Good Parenting'.

oh sure, can a feasibility study be done online, for the global village?

Why don't you do it and let us know what you find out?

Perhaps we should have a pole for the 'Good Parenting' award on this site. While I can think of many who would be excluded it is more difficult to propose whose who should be considered.

it should be documented.
good luck with retrieving the data.

Why would we want to?

Hey
does anybody know what happens when you cross a penis with a potato?

giq!

when the first question coming to mind is an all-out effort to formulate a CUI BONO?

why don't you do

yes, why!

And if they are cut in strips and deep-fried it would be a French Dick-tator. (A Napoleon?) Would the deep-frier be a Waterloo?