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you can educate people as much as you want, the majority aren't going to be able to become engineers and physicists. Unless we can get to the point where we ca

• ryandrake 9y ago
  It sounds like your argument is that the ability to become an engineer or physicist is an in-born trait, which no amount of study and work can overcome, which sounds absurd to me. As the high school coach used to say: "You don't need talent to practice!" Barring people truly born with mental disabilities, anyone can do it with the right attitude and resources. I'd be less worried about the gene pool and more worried about the unequal distribution of education spending causing pockets of the country to be financially unable to educate people.
  • sdflkd 9y ago
    > It sounds like your argument is that the ability to become an engineer or physicist is an in-born trait, which no amount of study and work can overcome, which sounds absurd to me. Do you have evidence of the contrary? Of the top X% of highschool students who make it to engineering programs at my university, roughly 40% fail or switch majors. If they can't do it, how do you expect average or lower people to? It is simply not feasible.