ohiobucks1;1474011 wrote:wait you just repped a guy who argued that Rachel Jantel cannot be smart because its "not in her genetics" without any proof or anything? GFY. Had she been raised in my family or yours (or anybody with a half decent family) she would be more than fine. Sure genetics may force a small percentage of people away from higher education and/or the ability to be considered intelligent but most of it is education received (especially at a young age). It's absolutely crazy to say that people we consider dumb at 20 are dumb because of "genetics". That's a load of shit. If you went and lived her situation from age 3 and you hers, I bet it would all be flipped.
GFY all of you saying we don't need education reform. I'm pretty conservative and even I see the need for it. Were like 40th in the world overall. We should be top 5 in literally every single category with our infrastructure. We need more privatized schooling to educate our best and brightest but we also need to develop the ability to educate the masses better as well. We need to budget for it. Quit with this socialize goddamn medicine and focus our budget on something that actually benefits everybody.
Haha. You pulled one part of his post to make your point. GFY.
No, it's not genetics. It's environment. Some of it might be genetics. Not everyone can be smart, even with good education. The reps mostly were for the part about needing ditch diggers. One of the biggest problems we have right now is that everyone thinks everyone should have high-paying, high profile, college grad type jobs. It can't work that way. It won't work that way.
As for your last paragraph, if we manipulated our educational system the way places like China do, we'd be at the top. The reason we aren't is because of what ccrunner said (and thus, the reps). We spend most of our time trying to make the ditch diggers into A students, and therefore drag down the rest.
(and thus I did it again in this post).
